Commit 452592c8 authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by Kamal Mostafa

atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature

commit f43bfaed upstream.

atl2 includes NETIF_F_SG in hw_features even though it has no support
for non-linear skbs.  This bug was originally harmless since the
driver does not claim to implement checksum offload and that used to
be a requirement for SG.

Now that SG and checksum offload are independent features, if you
explicitly enable SG *and* use one of the rare protocols that can use
SG without checkusm offload, this potentially leaks sensitive
information (before you notice that it just isn't working).  Therefore
this obscure bug has been designated CVE-2016-2117.
Reported-by: default avatarJustin Yackoski <jyackoski@crypto-nite.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fixes: ec5f0615 ("net: Kill link between CSUM and SG features.")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent 75b1b438
......@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int atl2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
err = -EIO;
netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
netdev->features |= (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX);
/* Init PHY as early as possible due to power saving issue */
......
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