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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index a34b308c8e3..a3e5cdd1cf5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -947,12 +947,22 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct xenvif *vif,
memcpy(txp, RING_GET_REQUEST(&vif->tx, cons + slots),
sizeof(*txp));
- if (txp->size > first->size) {
- netdev_err(vif->dev,
- "Invalid tx request, slot size %u > remaining size %u\n",
- txp->size, first->size);
- netbk_fatal_tx_err(vif);
- return -EIO;
+
+ /* If the guest submitted a frame >= 64 KiB then
+ * first->size overflowed and following slots will
+ * appear to be larger than the frame.
+ *
+ * This cannot be fatal error as there are buggy
+ * frontends that do this.
+ *
+ * Consume all slots and drop the packet.
+ */
+ if (!drop_err && txp->size > first->size) {
+ if (net_ratelimit())
+ netdev_dbg(vif->dev,
+ "Invalid tx request, slot size %u > remaining size %u\n",
+ txp->size, first->size);
+ drop_err = -EIO;
}
first->size -= txp->size;