netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Fix possible corruption in bpqether driver

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Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:10:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ralf@...ux-mips.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-hams@...r.kernel.org,
	thomas@...erried.de, jann@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Fix possible corruption in bpqether driver

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:58:52 +0100

> The bpq ether driver is modifying the data art of the skb by first
> dropping the KISS byte (a command byte for the radio) then prepending the
> length + 4 of the remaining AX.25 packet to be transmitted as a little
> endian 16-bit number.  If the high byte of the length has a different
> value than the dropped KISS byte users of clones of the skb may observe
> this as corruption.  This was observed with by running listen(8) -a which
> uses a packet socket which clones transmit packets.  The corruption will
> then typically be displayed for as a KISS "TX Delay" command for AX.25
> packets in the range of 252..508 bytes or any other KISS command for
> yet larger packets.
> 
> Fixed by using skb_cow to create a private copy should the skb be cloned.
> Using skb_cow also allows us to cleanup the old logic to ensure sufficient
> headroom in the skb.
> 
> While at it, replace a return of 0 from bpq_xmit with the proper constant
> NETDEV_TX_OK which is now being used everywhere else in this function.
> 
> Affected: all 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Reported-by: Jann Traschewski <jann@....de>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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