netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: 6lowpan: fix lowpan_header

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Date:	Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:25:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dborkman@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com,
	dbaryshkov@...il.com, werner@...esberger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: 6lowpan: fix lowpan_header_create
 non-compression memcpy call

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Date: Mon,  6 Jan 2014 01:45:50 +0100

> In function lowpan_header_create(), we invoke the following code
> construct:
> 
>   struct ipv6hdr *hdr;
>   ...
>   hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
>   ...
>   if (...)
>     memcpy(hc06_ptr + 1, &hdr->flow_lbl[1], 2);
>   else
>     memcpy(hc06_ptr, &hdr, 4);
> 
> Where the else path of the condition, that is, non-compression
> path, calls memcpy() with a pointer to struct ipv6hdr *hdr as
> source, thus two levels of indirection. This cannot be correct,
> and likely only one level of pointer was intended as source
> buffer for memcpy() here.
> 
> Fixes: 44331fe2aa0d ("IEEE802.15.4: 6LoWPAN basic support")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks.
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