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Subject[34-longterm 047/196] gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a upstream.

On older kernels the VLAN code may zero skb->dev before dropping
it and causing it to be reused by GRO.

Unfortunately we didn't reset skb->dev in that case which causes
the next GRO user to get a bogus skb->dev pointer.

This particular problem no longer happens with the current upstream
kernel due to changes in VLAN processing.

However, for correctness we should still reset the skb->dev pointer
in the GRO reuse function in case a future user does the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
net/core/dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3095934..19a74f6 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2822,6 +2822,7 @@ void napi_reuse_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
__skb_pull(skb, skb_headlen(skb));
skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN - skb_headroom(skb));
+ skb->dev = napi->dev;

napi->skb = skb;
}
--
1.7.9.3


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