From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== [ Upstream commit a39ee449f96a2cd44ce056d8a0a112211a9b1a1f ] vhost fails to validate negative error code from vhost_get_vq_desc causing a crash: we are using -EFAULT which is 0xfffffff2 as vector size, which exceeds the allocated size. The code in question was introduced in commit 8dd014adfea6f173c1ef6378f7e5e7924866c923 vhost-net: mergeable buffers support CVE-2014-0055 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/net.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index e5522d9f59e8..5264d839474a 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -501,9 +501,13 @@ static int get_rx_bufs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, r = -ENOBUFS; goto err; } - d = vhost_get_vq_desc(vq->dev, vq, vq->iov + seg, + r = vhost_get_vq_desc(vq->dev, vq, vq->iov + seg, ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov) - seg, &out, &in, log, log_num); + if (unlikely(r < 0)) + goto err; + + d = r; if (d == vq->num) { r = 0; goto err; -- 1.9.2 -- 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