netdev - Re: [PATCH wpan 1/2] net: 6lowpan: fix reserved space for single frames

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <a2cb217f-7e22-e603-bd46-13d8764fee64@datenfreihafen.org>
Date:   Thu, 5 Jul 2018 13:16:03 +0200
From:   Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To:     Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>, stefan@....samsung.com
Cc:     linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...atatu.com, David Palma <david.palma@...u.no>,
        Rabi Narayan Sahoo <rabinarayans0828@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wpan 1/2] net: 6lowpan: fix reserved space for single
 frames

Hello.

[CC David Palma and Rabi Narayan Sahoo]

On 02.07.2018 22:32, Alexander Aring wrote:
> This patch fixes patch add handling to take care tail and headroom for
> single 6lowpan frames. We need to be sure we have a skb with the right
> head and tailroom for single frames. This patch do it by using
> skb_copy_expand() if head and tailroom is not enough allocated by upper
> layer.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195059
> Reported-by: David Palma <david.palma@...u.no>
> Reported-by: Rabi Narayan Sahoo <rabinarayans0828@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>

David, Rabi and you please test these two patches and verify that it
fixes the problems you have?

regards
Stefan Schmidt

> ---
>  net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c
> index e6ff5128e61a..d0c4d220de08 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c
> @@ -265,9 +265,24 @@ netdev_tx_t lowpan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ldev)
>  	/* We must take a copy of the skb before we modify/replace the ipv6
>  	 * header as the header could be used elsewhere
>  	 */
> -	skb = skb_unshare(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	if (!skb)
> -		return NET_XMIT_DROP;
> +	if (unlikely(skb_headroom(skb) < ldev->needed_headroom ||
> +		     skb_tailroom(skb) < ldev->needed_tailroom)) {
> +		struct sk_buff *nskb;
> +
> +		nskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, ldev->needed_headroom,
> +				       ldev->needed_tailroom, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		if (likely(skb)) {
> +			consume_skb(skb);
> +			skb = nskb;
> +		} else {
> +			kfree_skb(skb);
> +			return NET_XMIT_DROP;
> +		}
> +	} else {
> +		skb = skb_unshare(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		if (!skb)
> +			return NET_XMIT_DROP;
> +	}
>  
>  	ret = lowpan_header(skb, ldev, &dgram_size, &dgram_offset);
>  	if (ret < 0) {
>