netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ip: fix IP

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:02:32 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ip: fix IP_CHECKSUM handling

On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 09:33 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> The skbs processed by ip_cmsg_recv() are not guaranteed to
> be linear e.g. when sending UDP packets over loopback with
> MSGMORE.
> Using csum_partial() on [potentially] the whole skb len
> is dangerous; instead be on the safe side and use skb_checksum().
> 
> Thanks to syzkaller team to detect the issue and provide the
> reproducer.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks Paolo !