netdev - Re: [PATCH net] dccp: fix option range in dccp_parse

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Date:   Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:14:30 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dccp: fix option range in dccp_parse_options()

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:43 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> dccp_parse_options() improperly parses 12 or 16 bytes in excess,
> because it forgets to subtract DCCP header len.
> 
> This causes various issues, since these 12/16 bytes are part of the
> payload and this might not even be present in skb->head, as
> dccp_invalid_packet() only pulled everything but payload.
> 
> KASAN complains since we might access uninitialized data.

Scratch that.

Never send a patch before first coffee in the morning ;)