Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head()of net/core/skbuff.c

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 22 2010 - 16:28:13 EST


From: Andrea Shepard <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:12:35 -0700

> Make pskb_expand_head() check ip_summed to make sure csum_start is really
> csum_start and not csum before adjusting it.
...
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, but your email client corrupted tab characters into spaces so
I had to apply your patch by hand.

There is a similar bug in skb_copy_expand() so I fixed that too.

Thanks again.

--------------------
net: Fix skb_copy_expand() handling of ->csum_start

It should only be adjusted if ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index c699159..ce88293 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -932,7 +932,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_copy_expand(const struct sk_buff *skb,
copy_skb_header(n, skb);

off = newheadroom - oldheadroom;
- n->csum_start += off;
+ if (n->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
+ n->csum_start += off;
#ifdef NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET
n->transport_header += off;
n->network_header += off;
--
1.7.1.1

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