This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tun: signedness bug in tun_get_user() to the 3.0-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: tun-signedness-bug-in-tun_get_user.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ebc6bacdc6d7bcf3fcf074e0aa5dd2f2fb2ff70a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:52:57 +0300 Subject: tun: signedness bug in tun_get_user() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 15718ea0d844e4816dbd95d57a8a0e3e264ba90e ] The recent fix d9bf5f1309 "tun: compare with 0 instead of total_len" is not totally correct. Because "len" and "sizeof()" are size_t type, that means they are never less than zero. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -614,8 +614,9 @@ static __inline__ ssize_t tun_get_user(s int offset = 0; if (!(tun->flags & TUN_NO_PI)) { - if ((len -= sizeof(pi)) > count) + if (len < sizeof(pi)) return -EINVAL; + len -= sizeof(pi); if (memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&pi, iv, 0, sizeof(pi))) return -EFAULT; @@ -623,8 +624,9 @@ static __inline__ ssize_t tun_get_user(s } if (tun->flags & TUN_VNET_HDR) { - if ((len -= tun->vnet_hdr_sz) > count) + if (len < tun->vnet_hdr_sz) return -EINVAL; + len -= tun->vnet_hdr_sz; if (memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&gso, iv, offset, sizeof(gso))) return -EFAULT; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.0/tun-signedness-bug-in-tun_get_user.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