Re: [PATCH] net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 19:42:26 EST


On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:38:54 +0800 Jiefeng wrote:
> From f78a25e62b4a0155beee0449536ba419feeddb75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jiefeng Zhang <jiefeng.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:17:37 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path
>
> The atlantic driver can receive packets with more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17)
> fragments when handling large multi-descriptor packets. This causes an
> out-of-bounds write in skb_add_rx_frag_netmem() leading to kernel panic.
>
> The issue occurs because the driver doesn't check the total number of
> fragments before calling skb_add_rx_frag(). When a packet requires more
> than MAX_SKB_FRAGS fragments, the fragment index exceeds the array bounds.
>
> Add a check in __aq_ring_rx_clean() to ensure the total number of fragments
> (including the initial header fragment and subsequent descriptor fragments)
> does not exceed MAX_SKB_FRAGS. If it does, drop the packet gracefully
> and increment the error counter.

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As for the patch -- what's the frag size the driver uses? If it's
larger than max_mtu / 16 the overflow is impossible.