On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 13:41 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:43 PM,  <roy.qing...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > From: Li RongQing <roy.qing...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > The size of all_zeros_mac is 6 byte, but eth_hash() will access the
>> > 8 byte, and KASan reported the below bug:
>>
>>
>> Sounds like we should fix eth_hash() (macvlan has a same function),
>> it should not read beyond 6 bytes.
>
> Why ? We always have at least 2 bytes following ethernet address in a
> packet.

Because we have to fix all the cases that don't.

>
> Better add these 2 bytes in all_zeros_mac[] and not slow down the hash
> function.
>
> We use same tricks in eth_type_trans()
>

I never doubt it works, as long as you want to audit all the cases
like this one,
sure go for it.

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