netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix UDP short packet false positive

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Message-Id: <20090205.150612.208352009.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:06:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jdb@...x.dk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix UDP short packet false positive

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@...x.dk>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:47:07 +0100

> 
> The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
> pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
> buffer.
> 
> This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
> as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
> receive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>

Excellent work!

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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