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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: 'skb' buffer address information leakage
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:27:45 -0700
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To: Dison River <pwn2river@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 13:12:18 +0800, Dison River wrote:
> drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_debugfs.c:167
>          seq_printf(file, " frag=%p", skb);

FWIW that's actually not a skb pointer.  The structure is defined like
this:

struct nfp_net_tx_buf {
        union { 
                struct sk_buff *skb;
                void *frag;
        };
        dma_addr_t dma_addr;
        short int fidx;
        u16 pkt_cnt;
        u32 real_len;
};

So the line in question is actually reading the frag pointer, I just
reused the skb variable, because this has to be read via READ_ONCE()
and NULL-checked so I thought that doing it separately for skb and
frag is a waste of LOC especially in debug code.  I will queue up a
clean up for after the merge window.

Thanks!