tap: fix use-after-free

Lockless access to __ptr_ring_full is only legal if ring is
never resized, otherwise it might cause use-after free errors.
Simply drop the lockless test, we'll drop the packet
a bit later when produce fails.

Fixes: 362899b8 ("macvtap: switch to use skb array")
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c
index 7c38659b2a767a2330e2e6dae778276086ef40af..77872699c45db5ea743c5d20e0d899fdb23cc321 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
@@ -330,9 +330,6 @@ rx_handler_result_t tap_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb)
        if (!q)
                return RX_HANDLER_PASS;
 
-       if (__ptr_ring_full(&q->ring))
-               goto drop;
-
        skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
 
        /* Apply the forward feature mask so that we perform segmentation