[PATCH] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro_receive()

[Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>]

[was: Re: Is it a possible bug in dev_gro_receive()?]
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:34:26AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:11:54PM +0800, Xin, Xiaohui wrote:
> > Jarek,
> > Seems community agree with your patch more.
> > So may you send out your patch then? Thanks!
> > Some of my related patches still need this fix.
> 
> Hmm... But there was no my patch. Only a tiny, cosmetical suggestion
> to your patch. I'd be glad if you add some credit or my "Acked-by",
> of course. But if you really have a big problem, e.g. you don't like
> my suggestion, please confirm.

Hmm#2... OK, it's probably something with my English, but since it
seems to take too long, here it is. Xiaohui, I hope you'll send your
"Signed-off-by" at least.

Thanks,
Jarek P.

PS: I know, there is a bit too long line...
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>Xin Xiaohui wrote:
> I looked into the code dev_gro_receive(), found the code here:
> if the frags[0] is pulled to 0, then the page will be released,
> and memmove() frags left.
> Is that right? I'm not sure if memmove do right or not, but
> frags[0].size is never set after memove at least. what I think
> a simple way is not to do anything if we found frags[0].size == 0.
> The patch is as followed.
...

This version of the patch fixes the bug directly in memmove.

Reported-by: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 1ae6543..3721fbb 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3143,7 +3143,7 @@ pull:
 			put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
 			memmove(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags,
 				skb_shinfo(skb)->frags + 1,
-				--skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags);
+				--skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags * sizeof(skb_frag_t));
 		}
 	}