linux-kernel - [068/114] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro

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Message-Id: <20100824224507.153574354@clark.site>
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:45:13 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [068/114] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro_receive()

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit e5093aec2e6b60c3df2420057ffab9ed4a6d2792 ]

>Xin Xiaohui wrote:
> I looked into the code dev_gro_receive(), found the code here:
> if the frags[0] is pulled to 0, then the page will be released,
> and memmove() frags left.
> Is that right? I'm not sure if memmove do right or not, but
> frags[0].size is never set after memove at least. what I think
> a simple way is not to do anything if we found frags[0].size == 0.
> The patch is as followed.
...

This version of the patch fixes the bug directly in memmove.

Reported-by: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3133,7 +3133,7 @@ pull:
 			put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
 			memmove(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags,
 				skb_shinfo(skb)->frags + 1,
-				--skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags);
+				--skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags * sizeof(skb_frag_t));
 		}
 	}
 


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