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l2tp: avoid skb truesize bug if headroom is increased
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A user reported seeing occasional bugs such as the following when
using the L2TP driver.

  SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (272) len=72, sizeof(sk_buff)=208

When L2TP adds its header in the transmit path, it might need to
increase the headroom of the skb. In some cases, the increased
headroom trips a kernel bug when the skb is freed because the skb has
grown beyond its truesize value. The fix is to increase the truesize
by the amount of headroom added, after orphaning the skb.

While here, fix a misleading comment.

Thanks to Iouri Kharon <bc-info@styx.cabel.net> for the initial
report and testing the fix.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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James Chapman authored and David S. Miller committed May 19, 2008
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13 changes: 8 additions & 5 deletions drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
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Expand Up @@ -980,6 +980,8 @@ static int pppol2tp_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
__wsum csum = 0;
struct udphdr *uh;
unsigned int len;
int old_headroom;
int new_headroom;

if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) || !(sk->sk_state & PPPOX_CONNECTED))
goto abort;
Expand All @@ -1001,16 +1003,18 @@ static int pppol2tp_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)

/* Check that there's enough headroom in the skb to insert IP,
* UDP and L2TP and PPP headers. If not enough, expand it to
* make room. Note that a new skb (or a clone) is
* allocated. If we return an error from this point on, make
* sure we free the new skb but do not free the original skb
* since that is done by the caller for the error case.
* make room. Adjust truesize.
*/
headroom = NET_SKB_PAD + sizeof(struct iphdr) +
sizeof(struct udphdr) + hdr_len + sizeof(ppph);
old_headroom = skb_headroom(skb);
if (skb_cow_head(skb, headroom))
goto abort;

new_headroom = skb_headroom(skb);
skb_orphan(skb);
skb->truesize += new_headroom - old_headroom;

/* Setup PPP header */
__skb_push(skb, sizeof(ppph));
skb->data[0] = ppph[0];
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1065,7 +1069,6 @@ static int pppol2tp_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
/* Get routing info from the tunnel socket */
dst_release(skb->dst);
skb->dst = dst_clone(__sk_dst_get(sk_tun));
skb_orphan(skb);
skb->sk = sk_tun;

/* Queue the packet to IP for output */
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