netdev - Re: net: Ensure partial checksum offset is inside the skb head

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Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:23:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: net: Ensure partial checksum offset is inside the skb head

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:22:01 +1000

> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:06:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> 
>> tun: Optimise handling of bogus gso->hdr_len
>> 
>> As all current versions of virtio_net generate a value for the
>> header length that's too small, we should optimise this so that
>> we don't copy it twice.  This can be done by ensuring that it is
>> at least as large as the place where we'll write the checksum.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> With this applied we can strengthen the partial checksum check:
> 
> net: Ensure partial checksum offset is inside the skb head
> 
> In skb_partial_csum_set we check to see if the checksum offset
> is within the packet.  However, we really should check that it
> is within the skb head as that's the only bit we can modify
> without copying.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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