This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list
of pages is small enough to fit into a skb.
If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't
go ahead building skbs anyway since we won't be able to send the buffer as
the user requested.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 0c7321c..bde0dec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -195,6 +195,19 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi,
len -= copy;
offset += copy;
+ /*
+ * Verify that we can indeed put this data into a skb.
+ * This is here to handle cases when the device erroneously
+ * tries to receive more than is possible. This is usually
+ * the case of a broken device.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(len > MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE)) {
+ if (net_ratelimit())
+ pr_debug("%s: too much data\n", skb->dev->name);
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
while (len) {
set_skb_frag(skb, page, offset, &len);
page = (struct page *)page->private;
--
1.7.6.1
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