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Commit c7ca03c2 authored by Xie He's avatar Xie He Committed by David S. Miller
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drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed_headroom and a skb->len check



1. Added a skb->len check

This driver expects upper layers to include a pseudo header of 1 byte
when passing down a skb for transmission. This driver will read this
1-byte header. This patch added a skb->len check before reading the
header to make sure the header exists.

2. Changed to use needed_headroom instead of hard_header_len to request
necessary headroom to be allocated

In net/packet/af_packet.c, the function packet_snd first reserves a
headroom of length (dev->hard_header_len + dev->needed_headroom).
Then if the socket is a SOCK_DGRAM socket, it calls dev_hard_header,
which calls dev->header_ops->create, to create the link layer header.
If the socket is a SOCK_RAW socket, it "un-reserves" a headroom of
length (dev->hard_header_len), and assumes the user to provide the
appropriate link layer header.

So according to the logic of af_packet.c, dev->hard_header_len should
be the length of the header that would be created by
dev->header_ops->create.

However, this driver doesn't provide dev->header_ops, so logically
dev->hard_header_len should be 0.

So we should use dev->needed_headroom instead of dev->hard_header_len
to request necessary headroom to be allocated.

This change fixes kernel panic when this driver is used with AF_PACKET
SOCK_RAW sockets.

Call stack when panic:

[  168.399197] skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff819d95fb len:20
put:14 head:ffff8882704c0a00 data:ffff8882704c09fd tail:0x11 end:0xc0
dev:veth0
...
[  168.399255] Call Trace:
[  168.399259]  skb_push.cold+0x14/0x24
[  168.399262]  eth_header+0x2b/0xc0
[  168.399267]  lapbeth_data_transmit+0x9a/0xb0 [lapbether]
[  168.399275]  lapb_data_transmit+0x22/0x2c [lapb]
[  168.399277]  lapb_transmit_buffer+0x71/0xb0 [lapb]
[  168.399279]  lapb_kick+0xe3/0x1c0 [lapb]
[  168.399281]  lapb_data_request+0x76/0xc0 [lapb]
[  168.399283]  lapbeth_xmit+0x56/0x90 [lapbether]
[  168.399286]  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x91/0x1f0
[  168.399289]  ? irq_init_percpu_irqstack+0xc0/0x100
[  168.399291]  __dev_queue_xmit+0x721/0x8e0
[  168.399295]  ? packet_parse_headers.isra.0+0xd2/0x110
[  168.399297]  dev_queue_xmit+0x10/0x20
[  168.399298]  packet_sendmsg+0xbf0/0x19b0
......

Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8912fd6a
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