netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] gve: fix crashes on invalid TX queue indices

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Message-ID: <20260106182244.7188a8f6@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:22:44 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Joshua Washington <joshwash@...gle.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@...gle.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
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 Jon Olson <jonolson@...gle.com>, Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>, Bailey
 Forrest <bcf@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] gve: fix crashes on invalid TX queue indices

On Mon,  5 Jan 2026 15:25:02 -0800 Joshua Washington wrote:
> This series fixes a kernel panic in the GVE driver caused by
> out-of-bounds array access when the network stack provides an invalid
> TX queue index.

Do you know how? I seem to recall we had such issues due to bugs
in the qdisc layer, most of which were fixed.

Fixing this at the source, if possible, would be far preferable
to sprinkling this condition to all the drivers.