netdev - Re: [PATCH net,stable] s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing

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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:17:33 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jwi@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        raspl@...ux.ibm.com, ubraun@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,stable] s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP
 processing

From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:20:50 +0100

> The response for a SNMP request can consist of multiple parts, which
> the cmd callback stages into a kernel buffer until all parts have been
> received. If the callback detects that the staging buffer provides
> insufficient space, it bails out with error.
> This processing is buggy for the first part of the response - while it
> initially checks for a length of 'data_len', it later copies an
> additional amount of 'offsetof(struct qeth_snmp_cmd, data)' bytes.
> 
> Fix the calculation of 'data_len' for the first part of the response.
> This also nicely cleans up the memcpy code.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.