From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EBCC433DF for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2020 00:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7C42075A for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2020 00:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726398AbgHGACL (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2020 20:02:11 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53548 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726130AbgHGACL (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2020 20:02:11 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:9]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7EEEC061574; Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f00:477::3d5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 836BE11D69C3E; Thu, 6 Aug 2020 16:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20200806.170205.1316893051509388641.davem@davemloft.net> To: xie.he.0141@gmail.com Cc: kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-x25@vger.kernel.org, willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, ms@dev.tdt.de, briannorris@chromium.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed_headroom and a skb->len check From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20200806015040.98379-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com> References: <20200806015040.98379-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Xie He Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 18:50:40 -0700 > 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: ... > Signed-off-by: Xie He Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.