This patch prevents a NULL dereference when the user has passed a length
longer than an actual buffer to virtio-net.

Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index bde0dec..4a53d2a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -208,12 +208,22 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info 
*vi,
                return NULL;
        }
 
-       while (len) {
+       while (len && page) {
                set_skb_frag(skb, page, offset, &len);
                page = (struct page *)page->private;
                offset = 0;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * This is the case where we ran out of pages in our linked list, but
+        * supposedly have more data to read.
+        */     
+       if (len > 0) {
+               pr_debug("%s: missing data to assemble skb\n", skb->dev->name);
+               dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        if (page)
                give_pages(vi, page);
 
-- 
1.7.6.1

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