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1From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015
2From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
3Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:35:35 -0800
4Subject: macvtap: make sure neighbour code can push ethernet header
5
6From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
7
8[ Upstream commit 2f1d8b9e8afa5a833d96afcd23abcb8cdf8d83ab ]
9
10Brian reported crashes using IPv6 traffic with macvtap/veth combo.
11
12I tracked the crashes in neigh_hh_output()
13
14-> memcpy(skb->data - HH_DATA_MOD, hh->hh_data, HH_DATA_MOD);
15
16Neighbour code assumes headroom to push Ethernet header is
17at least 16 bytes.
18
19It appears macvtap has only 14 bytes available on arches
20where NET_IP_ALIGN is 0 (like x86)
21
22Effect is a corruption of 2 bytes right before skb->head,
23and possible crashes if accessing non existing memory.
24
25This fix should also increase IPv4 performance, as paranoid code
26in ip_finish_output2() wont have to call skb_realloc_headroom()
27
28Reported-by: Brian Rak <brak@vultr.com>
29Tested-by: Brian Rak <brak@vultr.com>
30Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
31Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
32Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
33---
34 drivers/net/macvtap.c | 7 +++++--
35 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
36
37--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
38+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
39@@ -654,11 +654,14 @@ static void macvtap_skb_to_vnet_hdr(stru
40 } /* else everything is zero */
41 }
42
43+/* Neighbour code has some assumptions on HH_DATA_MOD alignment */
44+#define MACVTAP_RESERVE HH_DATA_OFF(ETH_HLEN)
45+
46 /* Get packet from user space buffer */
47 static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct macvtap_queue *q, struct msghdr *m,
48 struct iov_iter *from, int noblock)
49 {
50- int good_linear = SKB_MAX_HEAD(NET_IP_ALIGN);
51+ int good_linear = SKB_MAX_HEAD(MACVTAP_RESERVE);
52 struct sk_buff *skb;
53 struct macvlan_dev *vlan;
54 unsigned long total_len = iov_iter_count(from);
55@@ -722,7 +725,7 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m
56 linear = macvtap16_to_cpu(q, vnet_hdr.hdr_len);
57 }
58
59- skb = macvtap_alloc_skb(&q->sk, NET_IP_ALIGN, copylen,
60+ skb = macvtap_alloc_skb(&q->sk, MACVTAP_RESERVE, copylen,
61 linear, noblock, &err);
62 if (!skb)
63 goto err;