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Message-ID: <1339506917.22704.134.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:15:17 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Bogdan Hamciuc <bogdan.hamciuc@...escale.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: Fix skb tail pointer in netpoll_send_udp()

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:22 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 13:26 +0300, Bogdan Hamciuc wrote:
> > As skb->tail wasn't updated after skb_copy_to_linear_data(), subsequent
> > calls to skb_realloc_headroom() (as made by an ethernet driver's
> > ndo_start_xmit routine) would only effectively copy the packet headers,
> > leaving garbage in the payload.
> > 
> > In the process, removed some unnecessary code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bogdan Hamciuc <bogdan.hamciuc@...escale.com>
> > ---
> >  net/core/netpoll.c |    8 ++++----
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
> > index 3d84fb9..9a08068 100644
> > --- a/net/core/netpoll.c
> > +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
> > @@ -362,22 +362,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_send_skb_on_dev);
> >  
> >  void netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len)
> >  {
> > -	int total_len, eth_len, ip_len, udp_len;
> > +	int total_len, ip_len, udp_len;
> >  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> >  	struct udphdr *udph;
> >  	struct iphdr *iph;
> >  	struct ethhdr *eth;
> >  
> >  	udp_len = len + sizeof(*udph);
> > -	ip_len = eth_len = udp_len + sizeof(*iph);
> > -	total_len = eth_len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN;
> > +	ip_len = udp_len + sizeof(*iph);
> > +	total_len = ip_len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN;
> >  
> >  	skb = find_skb(np, total_len, total_len - len);
> >  	if (!skb)
> >  		return;
> >  
> >  	skb_copy_to_linear_data(skb, msg, len);
> > -	skb->len += len;
> > +	skb_put(skb, len);
> >  
> >  	skb_push(skb, sizeof(*udph));
> >  	skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
> 
> Hmm, real question is why skb_realloc_headroom() is even necessary...
> 
> I suspect we need to reserve more bytes.
> 
> 	total_len = ip_len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN + NET_SKB_PAD;
> 
> or something like that ?
> 
> Which driver triggers the bug ?
> 

Please try the following :

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 3d84fb9..1c6fb72 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -362,17 +362,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_send_skb_on_dev);
 
 void netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len)
 {
-	int total_len, eth_len, ip_len, udp_len;
+	int total_len, ip_len, udp_len;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct udphdr *udph;
 	struct iphdr *iph;
 	struct ethhdr *eth;
 
 	udp_len = len + sizeof(*udph);
-	ip_len = eth_len = udp_len + sizeof(*iph);
-	total_len = eth_len + ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN;
+	ip_len = udp_len + sizeof(*iph);
+	total_len = ip_len + LL_RESERVED_SPACE(np->dev);
 
-	skb = find_skb(np, total_len, total_len - len);
+	skb = find_skb(np, total_len + np->dev->needed_tailroom,
+		       total_len - len);
 	if (!skb)
 		return;
 


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