Re: [PATCH net] udp: Fix __ip_append_data()'s handling of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

David Howells wrote:
> Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > __ip6_append_data probably needs the same.
> 
> Now that's interesting.  __ip6_append_data() has a check for this and returns
> -EINVAL in this case:
> 
> 		copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap - pagedlen;
> 		if (copy < 0) {
> 			err = -EINVAL;
> 			goto error;
> 		}
> 
> but should I bypass that check for MSG_SPLICE_PAGES?  It hits the check when
> it should be able to get past it.  The code seems to go back to prehistoric
> times, so I'm not sure why it's there.

Argh, saved by inconsistency between the two stacks.

I don't immediately understand the race that caused this code to move,
in commit 232cd35d0804 ("ipv6: fix out of bound writes in __ip6_append_data()").
Maybe a race with a mtu update?

Technically there is no Fixes tag to apply, so this would not be a fix
for net.

If we want equivalent behavior, a patch removing this branch is probably
best sent to net-next, in a way that works from the start.