Re: [PATCH net-next v6] net: hv_netvsc: fix netvsc_send_completion to avoid multiple message length checks

From: Simon Horman
Date: Sun Oct 01 2023 - 15:39:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 02:19:16PM -0700, Sonia Sharma wrote:
> From: Sonia Sharma <sonia.sharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The switch statement in netvsc_send_completion() is incorrectly validating
> the length of incoming network packets by falling through to the next case.
> Avoid the fallthrough. Instead break after a case match and then process
> the complete() call.
> The current code has not caused any known failures. But nonetheless, the
> code should be corrected as a different ordering of the switch cases might
> cause a length check to fail when it should not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sonia Sharma <sonia.sharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>