linux-kernel - [PATCH] drivers/net/wan: lapb: Corrected the usage of skb

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Message-Id: <20200724163347.57213-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:33:47 -0700
From:   Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-x25@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/net/wan: lapb: Corrected the usage of skb_cow

This patch fixed 2 issues with the usage of skb_cow in LAPB drivers
"lapbether" and "hdlc_x25":

1) After skb_cow fails, kfree_skb should be called to drop a reference
to the skb. But in both drivers, kfree_skb is not called.

2) skb_cow should be called before skb_push so that is can ensure the
safety of skb_push. But in "lapbether", it is incorrectly called after
skb_push.

More details about these 2 issues:

1) The behavior of calling kfree_skb on failure is also the behavior of
netif_rx, which is called by this function with "return netif_rx(skb);".
So this function should follow this behavior, too.

2) In "lapbether", skb_cow is called after skb_push. This results in 2
logical issues:
   a) skb_push is not protected by skb_cow;
   b) An extra headroom of 1 byte is ensured after skb_push. This extra
      headroom has no use in this function. It also has no use in the
      upper-layer function that this function passes the skb to
      (x25_lapb_receive_frame in net/x25/x25_dev.c).
So logically skb_cow should instead be called before skb_push.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c  | 4 +++-
 drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
index c84536b03aa8..f70336bb6f52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ static int x25_data_indication(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	unsigned char *ptr;
 
-	if (skb_cow(skb, 1))
+	if (skb_cow(skb, 1)) {
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
+	}
 
 	skb_push(skb, 1);
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
index 284832314f31..b2868433718f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
@@ -128,10 +128,12 @@ static int lapbeth_data_indication(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	unsigned char *ptr;
 
-	skb_push(skb, 1);
-
-	if (skb_cow(skb, 1))
+	if (skb_cow(skb, 1)) {
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
+	}
+
+	skb_push(skb, 1);
 
 	ptr  = skb->data;
 	*ptr = X25_IFACE_DATA;
-- 
2.25.1