[PATCH 3.13 001/162] netlink: reset network header before passing to taps

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.13.11.11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 4e48ed883c72e78c5a910f8831ffe90c9b18f0ec ]

netlink doesn't set any network header offset thus when the skb is
being passed to tap devices via dev_queue_xmit_nit(), it emits klog
false positives due to it being unset like:

  ...
  [  124.990397] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
  [  124.990411] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
  ...

So just reset the network header before passing to the device; for
packet sockets that just means nothing will change - mac and net
offset hold the same value just as before.

Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index dbba678..cb5b7e0 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static int __netlink_deliver_tap_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (nskb) {
 		nskb->dev = dev;
 		nskb->protocol = htons((u16) sk->sk_protocol);
-
+		skb_reset_network_header(nskb);
 		ret = dev_queue_xmit(nskb);
 		if (unlikely(ret > 0))
 			ret = net_xmit_errno(ret);
-- 
1.9.1

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