This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr to the 3.18-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-packet-fix-overflow-in-check-for-tp_frame_nr.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Sun Apr 30 15:50:51 CEST 2017 From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:11:21 +0200 Subject: net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8f8d28e4d6d815a391285e121c3a53a0b6cb9e7b ] When calculating rb->frames_per_block * req->tp_block_nr the result can overflow. Add a check that tp_block_size * tp_block_nr <= UINT_MAX. Since frames_per_block <= tp_block_size, the expression would never overflow. Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -3820,6 +3820,8 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock * rb->frames_per_block = req->tp_block_size/req->tp_frame_size; if (unlikely(rb->frames_per_block <= 0)) goto out; + if (unlikely(req->tp_block_size > UINT_MAX / req->tp_block_nr)) + goto out; if (unlikely((rb->frames_per_block * req->tp_block_nr) != req->tp_frame_nr)) goto out; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/sctp-listen-on-the-sock-only-when-it-s-state-is-listening-or-closed.patch queue-3.18/net-packet-fix-overflow-in-check-for-tp_frame_nr.patch queue-3.18/net-packet-fix-overflow-in-check-for-tp_reserve.patch queue-3.18/ip6mr-fix-notification-device-destruction.patch