Neil, I couple of comments below, I was just looking at the implementation 
of this for e1000e.

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Neil Horman wrote:

> Hey all-
>       A security discussion was recently given:
> http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan//events/3596.en.html
> And a patch that I submitted awhile back was brought up.  Apparently some of
> their testing revealed that they were able to force a buffer fragment in e1000
> in which the trailing fragment was greater than 4 bytes.  As a result the
> fragment check I introduced failed to detect the fragement and a partial 
> invalid
> frame was passed up into the network stack.  I've written this patch to 
> correct
> it.  I'm in the process of testing it now, but it makes good logical sense to
> me.  Effectively it maintains a per-adapter state variable which detects a
> non-EOP frame, and discards it and subsequent non-EOP frames leading up to 
> _and_
> _including_ the next positive-EOP frame (as it is by definition the last
> fragment).  This should prevent any and all partial frames from entering the
> network stack from e1000
> 
> Regards
> Neil
> 
> 
>  e1000.h      |    3 ++-
>  e1000_main.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h
> index 2a567df..3d421ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h
> @@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ struct e1000_adapter {
>  enum e1000_state_t {
>       __E1000_TESTING,
>       __E1000_RESETTING,
> -     __E1000_DOWN
> +     __E1000_DOWN,
> +     __E1000_DISCARDING
>  };
>  
>  extern char e1000_driver_name[];
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> index 7e855f9..0731779 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> @@ -3850,16 +3850,26 @@ static bool e1000_clean_rx_irq(struct e1000_adapter 
> *adapter,
>  
>               length = le16_to_cpu(rx_desc->length);
>               /* !EOP means multiple descriptors were used to store a single
> -              * packet, also make sure the frame isn't just CRC only */
> -             if (unlikely(!(status & E1000_RXD_STAT_EOP) || (length <= 4))) {
> +              * packet, if thats the case we need to toss it.  In fact, we
> +              * to toss every packet with the EOP bit clear and the next
> +              * frame that _does_ have the EOP bit set, as it is by
> +              * definition only a frame fragment
> +              */
> +             if (unlikely(!(status & E1000_RXD_STAT_EOP)))
> +                     set_bit(__E1000_DISCARDING, &adapter->flags);

test_bit and set_bit and clear_bit are atomic operations, isn't that quite 
a bit of overhead for something that is already being done in a guaranteed 
single context?

> +
> +             if (test_bit(__E1000_DISCARDING, &adapter->flags)) {
>                       /* All receives must fit into a single buffer */
>                       E1000_DBG("%s: Receive packet consumed multiple"
>                                 " buffers\n", netdev->name);
>                       /* recycle */
>                       buffer_info->skb = skb;
> +                     if (status & E1000_RXD_STAT_EOP)
> +                             clear_bit(__E1000_DISCARDING, &adapter->flags);

couldn't these simply be read/modify/write assignments (aka |=)

That would significantly avoid the extra cycles needed to implement three 
atomic ops.

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