netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: avoid OOB accesses in PAUSE

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Message-ID: <aGEPszpq9eojNF4Y@shredder>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:04:35 +0300
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, horms@...nel.org,
	syzbot+430f9f76633641a62217@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
	andrew@...n.ch, maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: avoid OOB accesses in PAUSE_SET

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 04:39:26PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We now reuse .parse_request() from GET on SET, so we need to make sure
> that the policies for both cover the attributes used for .parse_request().
> genetlink will only allocate space in info->attrs for ARRAY_SIZE(policy).
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+430f9f76633641a62217@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 963781bdfe20 ("net: ethtool: call .parse_request for SET handlers")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>

Thanks, we hit that as well.

BTW, shouldn't you also release the reference from the net device if
ethnl_default_parse() fails in ethnl_default_set_doit()?