netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen-netback: hash mapping hanling adjustments

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:16:23 +0100
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:     Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen-netback: hash mapping hanling adjustments

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 02:12:07AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.08.18 at 16:54,  wrote:
> > First and foremost the fix for XSA-270. On top of that further changes
> > which looked desirable to me while investigating that XSA.
> > 
> > 1: fix input validation in xenvif_set_hash_mapping()
> > 2: validate queue numbers in xenvif_set_hash_mapping()
> > 3: handle page straddling in xenvif_set_hash_mapping()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> 
> What is the way forward here? I've got R-b-s from Paul for all three
> patches, and a minor change request on patch 2 from Wei. I'm not
> really certain what to do in this case (hints appreciated), but could
> at least the security fix (patch 1) be applied immediately?

If you happen to resend, please make the adjustment; otherwise I'm fine
with the patches as they are. I don't want to block useful things on
cosmetic issues.

Wei.