From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] geneve: avoid use-after-free of skb->data
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:33:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161202183300.GA31657@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027c88dd060f5ca4535cb346db125829b2181a88.1480675406.git.sd@queasysnail.net>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:49:29PM +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> geneve{,6}_build_skb can end up doing a pskb_expand_head(), which
> makes the ip_hdr(skb) reference we stashed earlier stale. Since it's
> only needed as an argument to ip_tunnel_ecn_encap(), move this
> directly in the function call.
>
> Fixes: 08399efc6319 ("geneve: ensure ECN info is handled properly in all tx/rx paths")
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Reviewed-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-02 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-02 15:49 [PATCH net] geneve: avoid use-after-free of skb->data Sabrina Dubroca
2016-12-02 18:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2016-12-02 19:09 ` David Miller
2016-12-03 0:33 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2016-12-04 4:11 ` David Miller
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