[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] vhost: fix possible out of bound access for indirect descs

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at intel.com
Mon Jan 21 09:12:18 CET 2019


Fix a possible out of bound access which may happen when handling
indirect descs in split ring.

Fixes: 1be4ebb1c464 ("vhost: support indirect descriptor in mergeable Rx")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Reported-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
index 0893a1d04..37a4c00d2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ fill_vec_buf_split(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	uint32_t len    = 0;
 	uint64_t dlen;
 	uint32_t nr_descs = vq->size;
+	uint32_t cnt    = 0;
 	struct vring_desc *descs = vq->desc;
 	struct vring_desc *idesc = NULL;
 
@@ -348,12 +349,7 @@ fill_vec_buf_split(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	}
 
 	while (1) {
-		if (unlikely(idx >= vq->size)) {
-			free_ind_table(idesc);
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-		if (unlikely(nr_descs-- == 0)) {
+		if (unlikely(idx >= nr_descs || cnt++ >= nr_descs)) {
 			free_ind_table(idesc);
 			return -1;
 		}
-- 
2.17.1



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