Patch "tun: read vnet_hdr_sz once" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tun: read vnet_hdr_sz once

to the 4.9-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:
tun-read-vnet_hdr_sz-once.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 18:20:48 -0500
Subject: tun: read vnet_hdr_sz once

From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit e1edab87faf6ca30cd137e0795bc73aa9a9a22ec ]

When IFF_VNET_HDR is enabled, a virtio_net header must precede data. Data length is verified to be greater than or equal to expected header length tun->vnet_hdr_sz before copying.

Read this value once and cache locally, as it can be updated between the test and use (TOCTOU).

---
 drivers/net/tun.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -1187,9 +1187,11 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s
 	}
 
 	if (tun->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR) {
-		if (len < tun->vnet_hdr_sz)
+		int vnet_hdr_sz = READ_ONCE(tun->vnet_hdr_sz);
+
+		if (len < vnet_hdr_sz)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		len -= tun->vnet_hdr_sz;
+		len -= vnet_hdr_sz;
 
 		n = copy_from_iter(&gso, sizeof(gso), from);
 		if (n != sizeof(gso))

@@ -1201,7 +1203,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s
 
 		if (tun16_to_cpu(tun, gso.hdr_len) > len)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		iov_iter_advance(from, tun->vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso));
+		iov_iter_advance(from, vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso));
 	}
 
 	if ((tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) == IFF_TAP) {

@@ -1348,7 +1350,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_put_user(struct tun_s
 		vlan_hlen = VLAN_HLEN;
 
 	if (tun->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR)
-		vnet_hdr_sz = tun->vnet_hdr_sz;
+		vnet_hdr_sz = READ_ONCE(tun->vnet_hdr_sz);
 
 	total = skb->len + vlan_hlen + vnet_hdr_sz;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/packet-round-up-linear-to-header-len.patch queue-4.9/tun-read-vnet_hdr_sz-once.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim.patch queue-4.9/net-introduce-device-min_header_len.patch queue-4.9/macvtap-read-vnet_hdr_size-once.patch