This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve 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_reserve.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 16:11:22 +0200 Subject: net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bcc5364bdcfe131e6379363f089e7b4108d35b70 ] When calculating po->tp_hdrlen + po->tp_reserve the result can overflow. Fix by checking that tp_reserve <= INT_MAX on assign. 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 @@ -3314,6 +3314,8 @@ packet_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, i return -EBUSY; if (copy_from_user(&val, optval, sizeof(val))) return -EFAULT; + if (val > INT_MAX) + return -EINVAL; po->tp_reserve = val; return 0; } 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