netdev - Re: [PATCH net] atl1c: reserve min skb headroom

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Date:   Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     fw@...len.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] atl1c: reserve min skb headroom

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:30:57 +0200

> Got crash report with following backtrace:
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8801869daffe
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff816429c4>]  [<ffffffff816429c4>] ip6_finish_output2+0x394/0x4c0
> RSP: 0018:ffff880186c83a98  EFLAGS: 00010283
> RAX: ffff8801869db00e ...
>   [<ffffffff81644cdc>] ip6_finish_output+0x8c/0xf0
>   [<ffffffff81644d97>] ip6_output+0x57/0x100
>   [<ffffffff81643dc9>] ip6_forward+0x4b9/0x840
>   [<ffffffff81645566>] ip6_rcv_finish+0x66/0xc0
>   [<ffffffff81645db9>] ipv6_rcv+0x319/0x530
>   [<ffffffff815892ac>] netif_receive_skb+0x1c/0x70
>   [<ffffffffc0060bec>] atl1c_clean+0x1ec/0x310 [atl1c]
>   ...
> 
> The bad access is in neigh_hh_output(), at skb->data - 16 (HH_DATA_MOD).
> atl1c driver provided skb with no headroom, so 14 bytes (ethernet
> header) got pulled, but then 16 are copied.
> 
> Reserve NET_SKB_PAD bytes headroom, like netdev_alloc_skb().
> 
> Compile tested only; I lack hardware.
> 
> Fixes: 7b7017642199 ("atl1c: Fix misuse of netdev_alloc_skb in refilling rx ring")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Ancient bug :-/

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Florian.