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Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:12:16 +0200
From:	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: while bridging Ethernet and wireless device:

2010/12/29 Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:11 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> Will be happy if someone can give me some more insight. (kernel 2.6.37-rc5)
>
> Tomas looked into it a bit more and told me that it happens on IPv6
> packets. To recap, he gets
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:1178!
> with
> EIP: [<f83edd65>] br_multicast_rcv+0xc95/0xe1c [bridge]
>
> Also remember that the packets are almost fully nonlinear, when they get
> here they likely have almost no data in the skb header.
>
> I then looked at br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(), and it looks fishy:
>
> Up to:
>        skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> everything's fine, since ipv6_skip_exthdr() will use
> skb_header_pointer(). At this point, offset is the result of
> ipv6_skip_exthdr(). Remember that skb_clone() is not skb_copy().

So far I can confirm that switching to sbk_copy fixes the crash.

Thanks
Tomas
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