diff mbox series

[RFC,v4,5/9] tun: Pad virtio header with zero

Message ID 20240924-rss-v4-5-84e932ec0e6c@daynix.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
Headers show
Series tun: Introduce virtio-net hashing feature | expand

Checks

Context Check Description
netdev/series_format success Posting correctly formatted
netdev/tree_selection success Guessed tree name to be net-next, async
netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag not required for -next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 16 this patch: 16
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers success CCed 6 of 6 maintainers
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 16 this patch: 16
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes success No Fixes tag
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 16 this patch: 16
netdev/checkpatch success total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 16 lines checked
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0

Commit Message

Akihiko Odaki Sept. 24, 2024, 9:01 a.m. UTC
tun used to simply advance iov_iter when it needs to pad virtio header,
which leaves the garbage in the buffer as is. This is especially
problematic when tun starts to allow enabling the hash reporting
feature; even if the feature is enabled, the packet may lack a hash
value and may contain a hole in the virtio header because the packet
arrived before the feature gets enabled or does not contain the
header fields to be hashed. If the hole is not filled with zero, it is
impossible to tell if the packet lacks a hash value.

In theory, a user of tun can fill the buffer with zero before calling
read() to avoid such a problem, but leaving the garbage in the buffer is
awkward anyway so fill the buffer in tun.

Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 1d06c560c5e6..9d93ab9ee58f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -2073,7 +2073,7 @@  static ssize_t tun_put_user_xdp(struct tun_struct *tun,
 		if (unlikely(copy_to_iter(&gso, sizeof(gso), iter) !=
 			     sizeof(gso)))
 			return -EFAULT;
-		iov_iter_advance(iter, vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso));
+		iov_iter_zero(vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso), iter);
 	}
 
 	ret = copy_to_iter(xdp_frame->data, size, iter) + vnet_hdr_sz;
@@ -2146,7 +2146,7 @@  static ssize_t tun_put_user(struct tun_struct *tun,
 		if (copy_to_iter(&gso, sizeof(gso), iter) != sizeof(gso))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		iov_iter_advance(iter, vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso));
+		iov_iter_zero(vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso), iter);
 	}
 
 	if (vlan_hlen) {