linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NET: mkiss: Fix panic

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:42:00 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ralf@...ux-mips.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas@...erried.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: mkiss: Fix panic

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:12:11 +0100

> If a USB-to-serial adapter is unplugged, the driver re-initializes, with
> dev->hard_header_len and dev->addr_len set to zero, instead of the correct
> values.  If then a packet is sent through the half-dead interface, the
> kernel will panic due to running out of headroom in the skb when pushing
> for the AX.25 headers resulting in this panic:
> 
> [<c0595468>] (skb_panic) from [<c0401f70>] (skb_push+0x4c/0x50)
> [<c0401f70>] (skb_push) from [<bf0bdad4>] (ax25_hard_header+0x34/0xf4 [ax25])
> [<bf0bdad4>] (ax25_hard_header [ax25]) from [<bf0d05d4>] (ax_header+0x38/0x40 [mkiss])
> [<bf0d05d4>] (ax_header [mkiss]) from [<c041b584>] (neigh_compat_output+0x8c/0xd8)
> [<c041b584>] (neigh_compat_output) from [<c043e7a8>] (ip_finish_output+0x2a0/0x914)
> [<c043e7a8>] (ip_finish_output) from [<c043f948>] (ip_output+0xd8/0xf0)
> [<c043f948>] (ip_output) from [<c043f04c>] (ip_local_out_sk+0x44/0x48)
> 
> This patch makes mkiss behave like the 6pack driver. 6pack does not
> panic.  In 6pack.c sp_setup() (same function name here) the values for
> dev->hard_header_len and dev->addr_len are set to the same values as in
> my mkiss patch.
> 
> [ralf@...ux-mips.org: Massages original submission to conform to the usual
> standards for patch submissions.]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Osterried <thomas@...erried.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

Applied, thank you.