netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: ip6_fragment: fix headroom tests and skb leak

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fw@...len.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: ip6_fragment: fix headroom tests and skb leak

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:26:14 +0200

> David Woodhouse reports skb_under_panic when we try to push ethernet
> header to fragmented ipv6 skbs:
> 
>  skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:c1277f1e len:1294 put:14 head:dec98000
>  data:dec97ffc tail:0xdec9850a end:0xdec98f40 dev:br-lan
> [..]
> ip6_finish_output2+0x196/0x4da
> 
> David further debugged this:
>   [..] offending fragments were arriving here with skb_headroom(skb)==10.
>   Which is reasonable, being the Solos ADSL card's header of 8 bytes
>   followed by 2 bytes of PPP frame type.
> 
> The problem is that if netfilter ipv6 defragmentation is used, skb_cow()
> in ip6_forward will only see reassembled skb.
> 
> Therefore, headroom is overestimated by 8 bytes (we pulled fragment
> header) and we don't check the skbs in the frag_list either.
> 
> We can't do these checks in netfilter defrag since outdev isn't known yet.
> 
> Furthermore, existing tests in ip6_fragment did not consider the fragment
> or ipv6 header size when checking headroom of the fraglist skbs.
> 
> While at it, also fix a skb leak on memory allocation -- ip6_fragment
> must consume the skb.
> 
> I tested this e1000 driver hacked to not allocate additional headroom
> (we end up in slowpath, since LL_RESERVED_SPACE is 16).
> 
> If 2 bytes of headroom are allocated, fastpath is taken (14 byte
> ethernet header was pulled, so 16 byte headroom available in all
> fragments).
> 
> Reported-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Diagnosed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Applied, thanks.
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