netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: mcast snooping, fix length check of snooped MLDv1/2

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linus.luessing@....de
Cc:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mcast snooping, fix length check of snooped
 MLDv1/2

From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:27:24 +0200

> "len = ntohs(ip6h->payload_len)" does not include the length of the ipv6
> header itself, which the rest of this function assumes, though.
> 
> This leads to a length check less restrictive as it should be in the
> following line for one thing. For another, it very likely leads to an
> integer underrun when substracting the offset and therefore to a very
> high new value of 'len' due to its unsignedness. This will ultimately
> lead to the pskb_trim_rcsum() practically never being called, even in
> the cases where it should.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>

Applied.
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