From: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv4 maint] batman-adv: fix potential kernel paging error for unicast transmissions
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:45:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21735459.pkRxIXDLhN@diderot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DD3BC9.4070603@meshcoding.com>
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On Monday 20 January 2014 16:07:53 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> On 20/01/14 11:06, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast(_4addr) might reallocate the skb's
> > data. If it does then our ethhdr pointer is not valid anymore in
> > batadv_send_skb_unicast(), resulting in a kernel paging error.
> >
> >
> >
> > Fixing this by refetching the ethhdr pointer after the potential
> > reallocation.
> >
> >
> >
> > Introduced by b46c60b9e1ee7a1909c542413a85875a750955d6
> > ("batman-adv: improve unicast packet (re)routing")
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
>
> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Applied in revision 41b3872.
Thanks,
Marek
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2014-01-20 10:06 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv4 maint] batman-adv: fix potential kernel paging error for unicast transmissions Linus Lüssing
2014-01-20 15:07 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-27 7:45 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
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