This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST to the 4.1-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: virtio-net-drop-netif_f_fraglist.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 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 Nov 17 14:35:45 PST 2015 From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:34:04 +0800 Subject: virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39 ] virtio declares support for NETIF_F_FRAGLIST, but assumes that there are at most MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 fragments which isn't always true with a fraglist. A longer fraglist in the skb will make the call to skb_to_sgvec overflow the sg array, leading to memory corruption. Drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST so we only get what we can handle. Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1756,9 +1756,9 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_d /* Do we support "hardware" checksums? */ if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM)) { /* This opens up the world of extra features. */ - dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST; + dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG; if (csum) - dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST; + dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG; if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO)) { dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/virtio-net-drop-netif_f_fraglist.patch queue-4.1/macvtap-unbreak-receiving-of-gro-skb-with-frag-list.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html