linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tun: bail out from tun_get

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 06:26:09 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tun: bail out from tun_get_user() if the skb is empty

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 05:42 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>> Or something cleaner to avoid copy/paste and focus on proper
>>> skb->data[0] access and meaning.
> By the way I'm wondering if this is the only place where skb->data is
> being accessed.
> Isn't eth_type_trans() under IFF_TAP also touching it? Then we need to
> check the size earlier.

It is already checked.