netdev - Re: [Bug 11633] Kernel panic after patch f3994eceebf64cf356a82ffb2718ef538eb8d4f4

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Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:25:54 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11633] Kernel panic after patch
	f3994eceebf64cf356a82ffb2718ef538eb8d4f4

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:49:55PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> I'll integrate this when I next get a chance.

Thanks!

Oh and to make it more obvious in future:

net: BUG instead of corrupting memory in pskb_expand_head

If the caller of pskb_expand_head specifies a negative nhead
we'll silently overwrite other people's memory.  This patch
makes it BUG instead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index ca1ccdf..3fad166 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -701,6 +701,8 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
 #endif
 	long off;
 
+	BUG_ON(nhead < 0);
+
 	if (skb_shared(skb))
 		BUG();
 

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