This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mvpp2: cls: Prevent buffer overflow in mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_del() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mvpp2-cls-prevent-buffer-overflow-in-mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_del.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue 12 May 2020 10:55:24 AM CEST From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:16:56 +0300 Subject: net: mvpp2: cls: Prevent buffer overflow in mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_del() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 722c0f00d4feea77475a5dc943b53d60824a1e4e ] The "info->fs.location" is a u32 that comes from the user via the ethtool_set_rxnfc() function. We need to check for invalid values to prevent a buffer overflow. I copy and pasted this check from the mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_ins() function. Fixes: 90b509b39ac9 ("net: mvpp2: cls: Add Classification offload support") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_cls.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_cls.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_cls.c @@ -1422,6 +1422,9 @@ int mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_del(struct mv struct mvpp2_ethtool_fs *efs; int ret; + if (info->fs.location >= MVPP2_N_RFS_ENTRIES_PER_FLOW) + return -EINVAL; + efs = port->rfs_rules[info->fs.location]; if (!efs) return -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/net-mvpp2-prevent-buffer-overflow-in-mvpp22_rss_ctx.patch queue-5.4/net-mvpp2-cls-prevent-buffer-overflow-in-mvpp2_ethtool_cls_rule_del.patch