netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next ] mpls: In mpls_egress verify the packet length.

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Message-Id: <20150312.230518.609381926355395030.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:05:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	rshearma@...cade.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] mpls: In mpls_egress verify the packet
 length.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:22:59 -0500

> 
> Reobert Shearman noticed that mpls_egress is failing to verify that
> the bytes to be examined are in fact present in the packet before
> mpls_egress reads those bytes.
> 
> As suggested by David Miller reduce this to a single pskb_may_pull
> call so that we don't do unnecessary work in the fast path.
> 
> Reported-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Perfect, applied, thanks!
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