Patch "net: thunderx: avoid exposing kernel stack" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: thunderx: avoid exposing kernel stack
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-thunderx-avoid-exposing-kernel-stack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Mon May 16 11:21:32 PDT 2016
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 00:46:18 +0200
Subject: net: thunderx: avoid exposing kernel stack
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 161de2caf68c549c266e571ffba8e2163886fb10 ]
Reserved fields should be set to zero to avoid exposing bits from the kernel stack.
--- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c +4 -0
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ static void nicvf_rcv_queue_config(strucnicvf_config_vlan_stripping (nic, nic->netdev->features);/* Enable Receive queue */ +memset (&rq_cfg,0 ,sizeof (struct rq_cfg )); rq_cfg.ena =1 ; rq_cfg.tcp_ena =0 ;nicvf_queue_reg_write (nic,NIC_QSET_RQ_0_7_CFG , qidx, *(u64 *)&rq_cfg);
@@ -582,6 +583,7 @@ void nicvf_cmp_queue_config(struct nicvf qidx, (u64)(cq->dmem.phys_base));/* Enable Completion queue */ +memset (&cq_cfg,0 ,sizeof (struct cq_cfg )); cq_cfg.ena =1 ; cq_cfg.reset =0 ; cq_cfg.caching =0 ;
@@ -630,6 +632,7 @@ static void nicvf_snd_queue_config(struc qidx, (u64)(sq->dmem.phys_base));/* Enable send queue & set queue size */ +memset (&sq_cfg,0 ,sizeof (struct sq_cfg )); sq_cfg.ena =1 ; sq_cfg.reset =0 ; sq_cfg.ldwb =0 ;
@@ -666,6 +669,7 @@ static void nicvf_rbdr_config(struct nic/* Enable RBDR & set queue size */ /* Buffer size should be in multiples of 128 bytes */ +memset (&rbdr_cfg,0 ,sizeof (struct rbdr_cfg )); rbdr_cfg.ena =1 ; rbdr_cfg.reset =0 ; rbdr_cfg.ldwb =0 ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/net-thunderx-avoid-exposing-kernel-stack.patch