netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs
authorEric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:30:21 +0000 (19:30 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:57:31 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
commit954fba0274058d27c7c07b5ea07c41b3b7477894
tree259b3fbcf79b801a8ea2c4c9401cc460aebfae62
parent5ee31c6898ea5537fcea160999d60dc63bc0c305
netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs

Bogdan Hamciuc diagnosed and fixed following bug in netpoll_send_udp() :

"skb->len += len;" instead of "skb_put(skb, len);"

Meaning that _if_ a network driver needs to call skb_realloc_headroom(),
only packet headers would be copied, leaving garbage in the payload.

However the skb_realloc_headroom() must be avoided as much as possible
since it requires memory and netpoll tries hard to work even if memory
is exhausted (using a pool of preallocated skbs)

It appears netpoll_send_udp() reserved 16 bytes for the ethernet header,
which happens to work for typicall drivers but not all.

Right thing is to use LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev)
(And also add dev->needed_tailroom of tailroom)

This patch combines both fixes.

Many thanks to Bogdan for raising this issue.

Reported-by: Bogdan Hamciuc <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Bogdan Hamciuc <[email protected]>
Cc: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
net/core/netpoll.c