linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] packet: bail out of packet

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Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2015 10:35:31 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, willemb@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dborkman@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: bail out of packet_snd() if L2 header
 creation fails

On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 13:01 -0500, Christoph Jaeger wrote:
> Due to a misplaced parenthesis, the expression
> 
>   (unlikely(offset) < 0),
> 
> which expands to
> 
>   (__builtin_expect(!!(offset), 0) < 0),
> 
> never evaluates to true. Therefore, when sending packets with
> PF_PACKET/SOCK_DGRAM, packet_snd() does not abort as intended
> if the creation of the layer 2 header fails.
> 
> Spotted by Coverity - CID 1259975 ("Operands don't affect result").
> 
> Fixes: 9c7077622dd9 ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller than l2 header")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
> ---

Nice catch !

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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