netdev - [PATCH net-2.6] gre: fix improper error handling

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:26:10 +0400
From:	Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-2.6] gre: fix improper error handling

Fix improper protocol err_handler, current implementation is fully 
unapplicable and may cause kernel crash due to double kfree_skb.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>
--
 net/ipv4/gre.c |   23 +++++++----------------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/gre.c b/net/ipv4/gre.c
index c6933f2..a8126fe 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/gre.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/in.h>
+#include <linux/ip.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/version.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
@@ -97,27 +98,17 @@ drop:
 static void gre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info)
 {
        const struct gre_protocol *proto;
-       u8 ver;
-
-       if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 12))
-               goto drop;
-
-       ver = skb->data[1]&0x7f;
+       const struct iphdr *iph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+       u8 ver = skb->data[(iph->ihl<<2) + 1]&0x7f;
+
        if (ver >= GREPROTO_MAX)
-               goto drop;
+               return;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        proto = rcu_dereference(gre_proto[ver]);
-       if (!proto || !proto->err_handler)
-               goto drop_unlock;
-       proto->err_handler(skb, info);
-       rcu_read_unlock();
-       return;
-
-drop_unlock:
+       if (proto && proto->err_handler)
+           proto->err_handler(skb, info);
        rcu_read_unlock();
-drop:
-       kfree_skb(skb);
 }
 
 static const struct net_protocol net_gre_protocol = {
--
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