linux-kernel - [53/74] gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:51:17 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Brandon Philips <bphilips@...e.de>
Subject: [53/74] gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

commit 66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a upstream.

On older kernels the VLAN code may zero skb->dev before dropping
it and causing it to be reused by GRO.

Unfortunately we didn't reset skb->dev in that case which causes
the next GRO user to get a bogus skb->dev pointer.

This particular problem no longer happens with the current upstream
kernel due to changes in VLAN processing.

However, for correctness we should still reset the skb->dev pointer
in the GRO reuse function in case a future user does the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2614,6 +2614,7 @@ void napi_reuse_skb(struct napi_struct *
 {
 	__skb_pull(skb, skb_headlen(skb));
 	skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN - skb_headroom(skb));
+	skb->dev = napi->dev;

 	napi->skb = skb;
 }

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