From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: don't corrupt mac_header on skb expansion Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090617.185307.136284239.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090617151734.5ce02459@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51075 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752518AbZFRBxE (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:53:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090617151734.5ce02459@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:17:34 -0700 > The skb mac_header field is sometimes NULL (or ~0u) as a sentinel > value. The places where skb is expanded add an offset which would > change this flag into an invalid pointer (or offset). > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied.