linux/net
Andrea Shepard 00c5a9834b net: Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c
Make pskb_expand_head() check ip_summed to make sure csum_start is really
csum_start and not csum before adjusting it.

This fixes a bug I encountered using a Sun Quad-Fast Ethernet card and VLANs.
On my configuration, the sunhme driver produces skbs with differing amounts
of headroom on receive depending on the packet size.  See line 2030 of
drivers/net/sunhme.c; packets smaller than RX_COPY_THRESHOLD have 52 bytes
of headroom but packets larger than that cutoff have only 20 bytes.

When these packets reach the VLAN driver, vlan_check_reorder_header()
calls skb_cow(), which, if the packet has less than NET_SKB_PAD (== 32) bytes
of headroom, uses pskb_expand_head() to make more.

Then, pskb_expand_head() needs to adjust a lot of offsets into the skb,
including csum_start.  Since csum_start is a union with csum, if the packet
has a valid csum value this will corrupt it, which was the effect I observed.
The sunhme hardware computes receive checksums, so the skbs would be created
by the driver with ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE and a valid csum field, and
then pskb_expand_head() would corrupt the csum field, leading to an "hw csum
error" message later on, for example in icmp_rcv() for pings larger than the
sunhme RX_COPY_THRESHOLD.

On the basis of the comment at the beginning of include/linux/skbuff.h,
I believe that the csum_start skb field is only meaningful if ip_csummed is
CSUM_PARTIAL, so this patch makes pskb_expand_head() adjust it only in that
case to avoid corrupting a valid csum value.

Please see my more in-depth disucssion of tracking down this bug for
more details if you like:

http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112186.html
http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112567.html
http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/112891.html
http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/113096.html
http://puellavulnerata.livejournal.com/113591.html

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Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22 13:25:18 -07:00
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9p kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN 2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
802 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
8021q net: deliver skbs on inactive slaves to exact matches 2010-06-10 22:23:34 -07:00
appletalk Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
atm net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
ax25 net: sk_sleep() helper 2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Update sec_level/auth_type for already existing connections 2010-07-08 20:35:31 -03:00
bridge bridge: Partially disable netpoll support 2010-07-19 23:28:25 -07:00
caif caif: fix a couple range checks 2010-06-09 16:18:53 -07:00
can net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
core net: Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c 2010-07-22 13:25:18 -07:00
dcb include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
dccp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-05-25 16:59:51 -07:00
decnet net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
dsa dsa: Fix Kconfig dependencies. 2010-07-12 20:03:42 -07:00
econet include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ethernet net: Inline skb_pull() in eth_type_trans(). 2010-05-02 02:21:44 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in wpan_phy_alloc 2010-05-23 23:11:07 -07:00
ipv4 tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue 2010-07-19 12:43:49 -07:00
ipv6 IPv6: fix CoA check in RH2 input handler (mip6_rthdr_input()) 2010-07-18 15:04:33 -07:00
ipx include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
irda net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
iucv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-05-28 10:18:40 -07:00
key pfkey: add severity to printk 2010-05-17 23:23:13 -07:00
l2tp l2tp_eth: fix memory allocation 2010-04-23 16:37:33 -07:00
lapb include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-05-12 00:05:35 -07:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-06-16 13:41:55 -07:00
netfilter ipvs: Add missing locking during connection table hashing and unhashing 2010-06-09 16:10:57 +02:00
netlabel net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
netlink netlink: Implment netlink_broadcast_filtered 2010-05-21 09:37:32 -07:00
netrom net: sk_sleep() helper 2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
packet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-21 01:14:25 -07:00
phonet Phonet: fix skb leak in pipe endpoint accept() 2010-07-08 21:45:34 -07:00
rds net/rds: Add missing mutex_unlock 2010-05-29 00:18:48 -07:00
rfkill Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
rose net: sk_sleep() helper 2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
rxrpc net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion 2010-05-01 15:00:15 -07:00
sched act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload 2010-07-12 20:00:19 -07:00
sctp net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
sunrpc sunrpc: fix leak on error on socket xprt setup 2010-05-26 08:43:50 -04:00
tipc tipc: Reduce footprint by un-inlining tipc_msg_* routines 2010-05-12 23:02:29 -07:00
unix unix/garbage: kill copy of the skb queue walker 2010-05-03 15:39:58 -07:00
wanrouter
wimax Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: add missing braces 2010-05-21 14:40:01 -04:00
x25 X25: Remove bkl in sockopts 2010-05-17 17:39:28 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: do not assume that template resolving always returns xfrms 2010-07-14 14:16:48 -07:00
compat.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Kconfig net/sysfs: Fix the bitrot in network device kobject namespace support 2010-05-21 09:37:32 -07:00
Makefile l2tp: Split pppol2tp patch into separate l2tp and ppp parts 2010-04-03 14:56:02 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c cls_cgroup: Store classid in struct sock 2010-05-24 00:12:34 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
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