Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix RSS action validation of queue idx

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Dekel Peled
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:33 PM
> To: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> <shahafs@mellanox.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix RSS action validation of queue idx
> 
> RSS action validation function checks the queues included in RSS
> to make sure they are valid.
> A Queue is considered valid if the pointer to the queue (item at
> location queue-index of RxQ array) is not a null value.
> The queue indices are not checked. If a large value is entered as
> queue index, using it as an index in RxQ array will result in a
> pointer to memory out of array bounds. If this memory contains a
> value which is not null, this queue will be wrongly considered valid.
> 
> This patch updates function mlx5_flow_validate_action_rss() with
> check of the input queue indices, as done in function
> mlx5_flow_validate_action_queue().
> 
> Fixes: 23c1d42c7138 ("net/mlx5: split flow validation to dedicated function")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 


Patch applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh