[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 05/96] vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 19:25:25 UTC 2014


3.13.11-ckt13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 91269e390d062b526432f2ef1352b8df82e0e0bc ]

pskb_may_pull should be used to check if skb->data has enough space,
skb->len can not ensure that.

Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 311d63d..0969176 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1337,9 +1337,6 @@ static int neigh_reduce(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (!in6_dev)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len))
-		goto out;
-
 	iphdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 	saddr = &iphdr->saddr;
 	daddr = &iphdr->daddr;
@@ -1886,7 +1883,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 			return arp_reduce(dev, skb);
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
 		else if (ntohs(eth->h_proto) == ETH_P_IPV6 &&
-			 skb->len >= sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + sizeof(struct nd_msg) &&
+			 pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)
+				       + sizeof(struct nd_msg)) &&
 			 ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr == IPPROTO_ICMPV6) {
 				struct nd_msg *msg;
 
-- 
1.9.1





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