Re: [RFC net] net: skbuff: fix stack variable out of bounds access

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Mar 23 2021 - 12:30:07 EST


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:42 PM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> A similar fix already landed in 5.12-rc3: commit b228c9b05876 ("net:
> expand textsearch ts_state to fit skb_seq_state"). That fix landed in
> 5.12-rc3.

Ah nice, even the same BUILD_BUG_ON() ;-)

Too bad it had to be found through runtime testing when it could have been
found by the compiler warning.

Arnd