[PATCH v2 net] net: ethernet: mediatek: avoid potential invalid memory access

sean.wang at mediatek.com sean.wang at mediatek.com
Sat Jul 22 05:45:55 PDT 2017


From: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>

Potential dangerous invalid memory might be accessed if invalid mac value
reflected from the forward port field in rxd4 caused by possible potential
hardware defects. So added a simple sanity checker to avoid the kind of
situation happening.

Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
Acked-by: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index c1dc08c..e69524c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -999,6 +999,10 @@ static int mtk_poll_rx(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget,
 		      RX_DMA_FPORT_MASK;
 		mac--;
 
+		if (unlikely(mac < 0 || mac >= MTK_MAC_COUNT ||
+			     !eth->netdev[mac]))
+			goto release_desc;
+
 		netdev = eth->netdev[mac];
 
 		if (unlikely(test_bit(MTK_RESETTING, &eth->state)))
-- 
2.7.4




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