netdev - Re: [PATCH net] packet: bail out of packet

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Message-ID: <CA+FuTSe2uob_2VBzqGCcNtmTMTUg5rBfi1E_+jUvOHtjDUkGpg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:49:01 -0500
From:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: bail out of packet_snd() if L2 header
 creation fails

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 13:01 -0500, Christoph Jaeger wrote:
>> Due to a misplaced parenthesis, the expression
>>
>>   (unlikely(offset) < 0),
>>
>> which expands to
>>
>>   (__builtin_expect(!!(offset), 0) < 0),
>>
>> never evaluates to true. Therefore, when sending packets with
>> PF_PACKET/SOCK_DGRAM, packet_snd() does not abort as intended
>> if the creation of the layer 2 header fails.
>>
>> Spotted by Coverity - CID 1259975 ("Operands don't affect result").
>>
>> Fixes: 9c7077622dd9 ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller than l2 header")
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
>> ---
>
> Nice catch !
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>

Indeed. I'm responsible for that typo. Thanks a lot for catching it!

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
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