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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen-netfront: drop skb when skb->len > 65535



On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 11:42 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 10:35 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > The `size' field of Xen network wire format is uint16_t, anything bigger 
> > than
> > 65535 will cause overflow.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > index 5527663..8c3d065 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > @@ -547,6 +547,18 @@ static int xennet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, 
> > struct net_device *dev)
> >     unsigned int len = skb_headlen(skb);
> >     unsigned long flags;
> >  
> > +   /*
> > +    * wire format of xen_netif_tx_request only supports skb->len
> > +    * < 64K, because size field in xen_netif_tx_request is
> > +    * uint16_t.
> 
> Is there some field we can set e.g. in struct ethernet_device which
> would stop this from happening?
> 

struct ethernet_device? I could not find it.

And for struct net_device, there is no field for this AFAICT.


Wei.

> 
> > +    */
> > +   if (unlikely(skb->len > (uint16_t)(~0))) {
> > +           net_alert_ratelimited(
> > +                   "xennet: skb->len = %d, too big for wire format\n",
> > +                   skb->len);
> > +           goto drop;
> > +   }
> > +
> >     slots = DIV_ROUND_UP(offset + len, PAGE_SIZE) +
> >             xennet_count_skb_frag_slots(skb);
> >     if (unlikely(slots > MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1)) {
> 
> 



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