This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xen-netback: BUG_ON in xenvif_rx_action() not catching overflow

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-netback-bug_on-in-xenvif_rx_action-not-catching-overflow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Apr 10 20:31:46 PDT 2014
From: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:39:07 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: BUG_ON in xenvif_rx_action() not catching overflow

From: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 1425c7a4e8d3d2eebf308bcbdc3fa3c1247686b4 ]

The BUG_ON to catch ring overflow in xenvif_rx_action() makes the assumption
that meta_slots_used == ring slots used. This is not necessarily the case
for GSO packets, because the non-prefix GSO protocol consumes one more ring
slot than meta-slot for the 'extra_info'. This patch changes the test to
actually check ring slots.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenv
 
        while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&vif->rx_queue)) != NULL) {
                RING_IDX max_slots_needed;
+               RING_IDX old_req_cons;
+               RING_IDX ring_slots_used;
                int i;
 
                /* We need a cheap worse case estimate for the number of
@@ -530,8 +532,12 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenv
                        vif->rx_last_skb_slots = 0;
 
                sco = (struct skb_cb_overlay *)skb->cb;
+
+               old_req_cons = vif->rx.req_cons;
                sco->meta_slots_used = xenvif_gop_skb(skb, &npo);
-               BUG_ON(sco->meta_slots_used > max_slots_needed);
+               ring_slots_used = vif->rx.req_cons - old_req_cons;
+
+               BUG_ON(ring_slots_used > max_slots_needed);
 
                __skb_queue_tail(&rxq, skb);
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.14/xen-netback-bug_on-in-xenvif_rx_action-not-catching-overflow.patch
queue-3.14/xen-netback-worse-case-estimate-in-xenvif_rx_action-is-underestimating.patch
queue-3.14/xen-netback-remove-pointless-clause-from-if-statement.patch
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