netdev - Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 v2 00/11] fix FragmentSmack in stable branch (CVE-2018-5391)

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Date:   Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:03:26 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 v2 00/11] fix FragmentSmack in stable branch
 (CVE-2018-5391)

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:48:33AM +0800, Mao Wenan wrote:
> There is one CVE: CVE-2018-5391 kernel: IP fragments with random offsets allow a 
> remote denial of service (FragmentSmack), 
> A fix is a merge commit in the Linux kernel tree:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c30f1fc041b74ecdb072dd44f858750414b8b19f
> 
> consisting of the following commits:
> 7969e5c40dfd04799d4341f1b7cd266b6e47f227 ip: discard IPv4 datagrams with overlapping segments.
> 385114dec8a49b5e5945e77ba7de6356106713f4 net: modify skb_rbtree_purge to return the truesize of all purged skbs.
> fa0f527358bd900ef92f925878ed6bfbd51305cc ip: use rb trees for IP frag queue.
> 
> All above patches are with rb tree to fix this CVE, which is very similar the CVE-2018-5390, that I have backport
> to stable 4.4 branch in last year.
> 
> In these patchset, I will backport some patches to fix CVE-2018-5391 with rb tree.  
> 
> v1->v2: in this patch, ipv6: defrag: drop non-last frags smaller than min mtu
> fix the incorrect return value of nf_ct_frag6_gather.

Thanks for fixing that up, I've queued the patches up now, let's see if
they pass the testers :)

greg k-h