On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 20:40 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:40:55PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:

quoted

This patch prevents a NULL dereference when the user has passed a length
longer than an actual buffer to virtio-net.

Cc: Rusty Russell <redacted>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index bde0dec..4a53d2a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c

@@ -208,12 +208,22 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	while (len) {
+	while (len && page) {
 		set_skb_frag(skb, page, offset, &len);
 		page = (struct page *)page->private;
 		offset = 0;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * This is the case where we ran out of pages in our linked list, but
+	 * supposedly have more data to read.

Again, let's clarify that this only happens with broken devices.

I think that the code within the if() makes it clear that it isn't the
regular path.

-- 

Sasha.