Jason A. Donenfeld says:
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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.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>