Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] tun: Pad virtio header with zero
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-01-10 03:27:52
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM Akihiko Odaki [off-list ref] wrote:
tun used to simply advance iov_iter when it needs to pad virtio header, which leaves the garbage in the buffer as is. This is especially problematic when tun starts to allow enabling the hash reporting feature; even if the feature is enabled, the packet may lack a hash value and may contain a hole in the virtio header because the packet arrived before the feature gets enabled or does not contain the header fields to be hashed. If the hole is not filled with zero, it is impossible to tell if the packet lacks a hash value.
I'm not sure I will get here, could we do this in the series of hash reporting?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
In theory, a user of tun can fill the buffer with zero before calling read() to avoid such a problem, but leaving the garbage in the buffer is awkward anyway so fill the buffer in tun. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <redacted> --- drivers/net/tun_vnet.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c b/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c index fe842df9e9ef..ffb2186facd3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ int tun_vnet_hdr_put(int sz, struct iov_iter *iter, if (copy_to_iter(hdr, sizeof(*hdr), iter) != sizeof(*hdr)) return -EFAULT; - iov_iter_advance(iter, sz - sizeof(*hdr)); + if (iov_iter_zero(sz - sizeof(*hdr), iter) != sz - sizeof(*hdr)) + return -EFAULT; return 0;
There're various callers of iov_iter_advance(), do we need to fix them all? Thanks
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