Re: [PATCH] usbnet.c, buf.overrun crash-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.12-rc1
From: Jakemuksen spammiosote
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 13:17:09 EST
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Brownell wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2005 8:05 am, Jakemuksen spammiosote wrote:
Atleast versions 2.6.5 - 2.6.12-rc1 crash if an USB device using usbnet
sends oversized packet. Such packets occur most likely with broken
Care to mention what device(s) you saw this with? And what HCD?
I can't tell about the device(NDA), and don't remember the HCD and I can
check it only after holidays.
+ if (unlikely((skb->tail + urb->actual_length) > skb->end)) {
This logic looks wrong. If that ever happens, surely the problem is
that the rx_submit() code submitted an urb with transfer_size that
mismatched the SKB. The host controller isn't allowed to overrun the
Sounds reasonable. So, I'll go thru the HCD code instead if the
responsibility is there. Am i the first one to run into such crash
situation? If so, perhaps it's not ever worthy to fix in mainstream
kernel, as the device causes the crash under very specific -
'abusing' one might say, situation only.
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