[PATCH v2 1/2] 6lowpan: Make a copy of skb's delivered to 6lowpan

[Alan Ott]

Since lowpan_process_data() modifies the skb (by calling skb_pull()), we
need our own copy so that it doesn't affect the data received by other
protcols (in this case, af_ieee802154).

Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index 6a09522..ce33b02 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -1133,6 +1133,8 @@ static int lowpan_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
 static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev)
 {
+	struct sk_buff *local_skb;
+
 	if (!netif_running(dev))
 		goto drop;
 
@@ -1144,7 +1146,12 @@ static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_IPHC:	/* ipv6 datagram */
 	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAG1:	/* first fragment header */
 	case LOWPAN_DISPATCH_FRAGN:	/* next fragments headers */
-		lowpan_process_data(skb);
+		local_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!local_skb)
+			goto drop;
+		lowpan_process_data(local_skb);
+
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;
-- 
1.7.0.4

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