linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 01/55] netlink: reset network header before passing to taps

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Message-Id: <20141013022443.786497525@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:24:15 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 01/55] netlink: reset network header before passing to taps

3.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 4e48ed883c72e78c5a910f8831ffe90c9b18f0ec ]

netlink doesn't set any network header offset thus when the skb is
being passed to tap devices via dev_queue_xmit_nit(), it emits klog
false positives due to it being unset like:

  ...
  [  124.990397] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
  [  124.990411] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
  ...

So just reset the network header before passing to the device; for
packet sockets that just means nothing will change - mac and net
offset hold the same value just as before.

Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int __netlink_deliver_tap_skb(str
 		nskb->protocol = htons((u16) sk->sk_protocol);
 		nskb->pkt_type = netlink_is_kernel(sk) ?
 				 PACKET_KERNEL : PACKET_USER;
-
+		skb_reset_network_header(nskb);
 		ret = dev_queue_xmit(nskb);
 		if (unlikely(ret > 0))
 			ret = net_xmit_errno(ret);


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