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Commit 260916df authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller
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macvlan: Fix potential use-after free for broadcasts



When we postpone a broadcast packet we save the source port in
the skb if it is local.  However, the source port can disappear
before we get a chance to process the packet.

This patch fixes this by holding a ref count on the netdev.

It also delays the skb->cb modification until after we allocate
the new skb as you should not modify shared skbs.

Fixes: 412ca155 ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 595d0b29
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