Re: [PATCH v5] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors

[Zoltan Kiss]

On 22/04/14 16:38, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 12:26 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:29:56PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:37:45 +0000
> > >
> > > > skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't
> > > > orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that
> > > > as well, and modify the callers accordingly. skb_tx_error() is also added to
> > > > the callers so they will signal the failed delivery towards the creator of the
> > > > skb.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Fingers crossed :-)  Applied, thanks Zoltan.
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> > Could you please queue this for stable as well?  It has CVE-2014-2568
> > assigned to it and I believe it is applicable to some of the trees.
>
> It was applied to 3.13, but needs backporting to earlier versions.  I
> posted my attempt in
> <1397429860.10849.86.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> but it needs
> testing/reviewing.

This one is a different issue, although it is very similar.

Zoli

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