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Jason A. Donenfeld says: ==================== net: Avoiding stack overflow in skb_to_sgvec The recent bug with macsec and historical one with virtio have indicated that letting skb_to_sgvec trounce all over an sglist without checking the length is probably a bad idea. And it's not necessary either: an sglist already explicitly marks its last item, and the initialization functions are diligent in doing so. Thus there's a clear way of avoiding future overflows. So, this patchset, from a high level, makes skb_to_sgvec return a potential error code, and then adjusts all callers to check for the error code. There are two situations in which skb_to_sgvec might return such an error: 1) When the passed in sglist is too small; and 2) When the passed in skbuff is too deeply nested. So, the first patch in this series handles the issues with skb_to_sgvec directly, and the remaining ones then handle the call sites. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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