From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932307Ab2KZREE (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:04:04 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:47342 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932232Ab2KZRD7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:03:59 -0500 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: "David S. Miller" , Cong Wang , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: [PATCH 068/270] pktgen: fix crash when generating IPv6 packets Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:55:58 -0200 Message-Id: <1353949160-26803-69-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> References: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amerigo Wang commit 5aa8b572007c4bca1e6d3dd4c4820f1ae49d6bb2 upstream. For IPv6, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) = 40, thus the following expression will result negative: datalen = pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size - 14 - sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) - pkt_dev->pkt_overhead; And, the check "if (datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))" will be passed as "datalen" is promoted to unsigned, therefore will cause a crash later. This is a quick fix by checking if "datalen" is negative. The following patch will increase the default value of 'min_pkt_size' for IPv6. This bug should exist for a long time, so Cc -stable too. Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- net/core/pktgen.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index cce9e53..aa278cd 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -2927,7 +2927,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *fill_packet_ipv6(struct net_device *odev, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) - pkt_dev->pkt_overhead; - if (datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr)) { + if (datalen < 0 || datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr)) { datalen = sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr); net_info_ratelimited("increased datalen to %d\n", datalen); } -- 1.7.9.5