Re: net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:41 AM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:18 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:38:16AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately commit
> > > >
> > > >   net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload
> > > >   d5be7f632bad0f489879eed0ff4b99bd7fe0b74c
> > > >
> > > > needs follow-up
> > > >
> > > >   net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso validation
> > > >   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1044429/
> > > >
> > > > It rejects illegal packets injected from userspace, including at
> > > > least one that can crash the kernel. But I'm afraid it has false
> > > > positives.
> > > >
> > > > I would suggest holding back on the backport to stable branches until
> > > > both patches can go in together.
> > > >
> > > > If the second patch is not accepted, the alternative will be to revert
> > > > this filter-based approach completely and fix the narrow kernel crash
> > > > (but I'm afraid that syzkaller will just find others..)
> > > >
> > > > Apologies for the mess,
> > >
> > > Ok, I will go drop this patch from all of the stable queues.  Can you
> > > remind me when your fixup hits Linus's tree so that I can queue up both
> > > patches?
> >
> > Thanks Greg.
> >
> > Okay, I'll reply to this thread with the follow-up commit SHA1.
> 
> Both patches have now landed in linus's tree
> 
> this patch
> 
>   net: validate untrusted gso packets without csum offload
>   d5be7f632bad0f489879eed0ff4b99bd7fe0b74c
> 
> and its fix
> 
>   net: avoid false positives in untrusted gso validation
>   9e8db5913264d3967b93c765a6a9e464d9c473db

Thanks for letting me know, now queued up.

greg k-h



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