Re: [PATCH stable <= 3.18] net: add length argument to skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_iovec

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2015-11-10, 16:03:52 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 05:59:26PM -0600, Josh Hunt wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 2015-10-15, 14:25:03 +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> > >> Without this length argument, we can read past the end of the iovec in
> > >> memcpy_toiovec because we have no way of knowing the total length of the
> > >> iovec's buffers.
> > >>
> > >> This is needed for stable kernels where 89c22d8c3b27 ("net: Fix skb
> > >> csum races when peeking") has been backported but that don't have the
> > >> ioviter conversion, which is almost all the stable trees <= 3.18.
> > >>
> > >> This also fixes a kernel crash for NFS servers when the client uses
> > >>  -onfsvers=3,proto=udp to mount the export.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Fixes CVE-2015-8019.
> > > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/29/1
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sabrina
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> > Greg
> > 
> > Do you have this in your queue? I saw a few other stables pick this
> > up, but haven't seen it in 3.14 or 3.18 yet. It wasn't clear to me if
> > this had been fully reviewed yet.
> 
> I rely on Dave to package up networking stable patches and forward them
> on to me, that's why you haven't seen it be picked up yet.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

David, can you queue this up?

Thanks,

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