Re: [PATCH 4.4 15/39] geneve: pull IP header before ECN decapsulation
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 09:58:34 EST
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:38:44PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:32:12PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:26 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > IP_ECN_decapsulate() and IP6_ECN_decapsulate() assume
> > > IP header is already pulled.
> > >
> > > geneve does not ensure this yet.
> > >
> > > Fixing this generically in IP_ECN_decapsulate() and
> > > IP6_ECN_decapsulate() is not possible, since callers
> > > pass a pointer that might be freed by pskb_may_pull()
> > >
> > > syzbot reported :
> > >
> >
> > Note that we had to revert this patch, so you can either scratp this
> > backport, or make sure to backport the revert.
>
> I'll drop it thanks. Odd I lost the upstream git id on this patch, let
> me check what went wrong...
What is the git id of the revert? This ended up already in 4.19.y,
5.4.y, and 5.9.y so needs to be reverted there.
thanks,
greg k-h