netdev - Re: pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else

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Date:	Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:08:59 +0100
From:	James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Dave:
> 
> I noticed that my last patch to move the unshare in pppoe missed
> the other spot which did the same thing:
> 
> pppoe: Unshare skb before anything else
> 
> We need to unshare the skb first as otherwise pskb_may_pull may
> write to a shared skb which could be bad.

The same problem exists in the pppol2tp driver. Patch to follow. I'm 
also fixing the copy-to-iovec issue.

-- 
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
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