netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netlink: reset network header before passing to taps

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Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:06:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dborkman@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, marcel@...tmann.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: reset network header before passing to
 taps

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Aug 2014 22:22:47 +0200

> netlink doesn't set any network header offset thus when the skb is
> being passed to tap devices via dev_queue_xmit_nit(), it emits klog
> false positives due to it being unset like:
> 
>   ...
>   [  124.990397] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
>   [  124.990411] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
>   ...
> 
> So just reset the network header before passing to the device; for
> packet sockets that just means nothing will change - mac and net
> offset hold the same value just as before.
> 
> Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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