FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

index 1a627ba4b850..a31098981a65 100644
@@ -1468,58 +1468,68 @@ static int ax88179_rx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	u16 hdr_off;
 	u32 *pkt_hdr;
 
-	/* This check is no longer done by usbnet */
-	if (skb->len < dev->net->hard_header_len)
+	/* At the end of the SKB, there's a header telling us how many packets
+	 * are bundled into this buffer and where we can find an array of
+	 * per-packet metadata (which contains elements encoded into u16).
+	 */
+	if (skb->len < 4)
 		return 0;
-
 	skb_trim(skb, skb->len - 4);
 	rx_hdr = get_unaligned_le32(skb_tail_pointer(skb));
-
 	pkt_cnt = (u16)rx_hdr;
 	hdr_off = (u16)(rx_hdr >> 16);
+
+	if (pkt_cnt == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Make sure that the bounds of the metadata array are inside the SKB
+	 * (and in front of the counter at the end).
+	 */
+	if (pkt_cnt * 2 + hdr_off > skb->len)
+		return 0;
 	pkt_hdr = (u32 *)(skb->data + hdr_off);
 
-	while (pkt_cnt--) {
+	/* Packets must not overlap the metadata array */
+	skb_trim(skb, hdr_off);
+
+	for (; ; pkt_cnt--, pkt_hdr++) {
 		u16 pkt_len;
 
 		le32_to_cpus(pkt_hdr);
 		pkt_len = (*pkt_hdr >> 16) & 0x1fff;
 
-		/* Check CRC or runt packet */
-		if ((*pkt_hdr & AX_RXHDR_CRC_ERR) ||
-		    (*pkt_hdr & AX_RXHDR_DROP_ERR)) {
-			skb_pull(skb, (pkt_len + 7) & 0xFFF8);
-			pkt_hdr++;
-			continue;
-		}
-
-		if (pkt_cnt == 0) {
-			skb->len = pkt_len;
-			/* Skip IP alignment pseudo header */
-			skb_pull(skb, 2);
-			skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, skb->len);
-			skb->truesize = pkt_len + sizeof(struct sk_buff);
-			ax88179_rx_checksum(skb, pkt_hdr);
-			return 1;
-		}
+		if (pkt_len > skb->len)
+			return 0;
 
-		ax_skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (ax_skb) {
+		/* Check CRC or runt packet */
+		if (((*pkt_hdr & (AX_RXHDR_CRC_ERR | AX_RXHDR_DROP_ERR)) == 0) &&
+		    pkt_len >= 2 + ETH_HLEN) {
+			bool last = (pkt_cnt == 0);
+
+			if (last) {
+				ax_skb = skb;
+			} else {
+				ax_skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+				if (!ax_skb)
+					return 0;
+			}
 			ax_skb->len = pkt_len;
 			/* Skip IP alignment pseudo header */
 			skb_pull(ax_skb, 2);
 			skb_set_tail_pointer(ax_skb, ax_skb->len);
 			ax_skb->truesize = pkt_len + sizeof(struct sk_buff);
 			ax88179_rx_checksum(ax_skb, pkt_hdr);
+
+			if (last)
+				return 1;
+
 			usbnet_skb_return(dev, ax_skb);
-		} else {
-			return 0;
 		}
 
-		skb_pull(skb, (pkt_len + 7) & 0xFFF8);
-		pkt_hdr++;
+		/* Trim this packet away from the SKB */
+		if (!skb_pull(skb, (pkt_len + 7) & 0xFFF8))
+			return 0;
 	}
-	return 1;
 }
 
 static struct sk_buff *