From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: test tailroom before appending to linear skb Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 17:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20180517.170736.1069647347006753023.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180517171329.201710-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, willemb@google.com To: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:35392 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751839AbeEQVHi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2018 17:07:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180517171329.201710-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Willem de Bruijn Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:13:29 -0400 > From: Willem de Bruijn > > Device features may change during transmission. In particular with > corking, a device may toggle scatter-gather in between allocating > and writing to an skb. > > Do not unconditionally assume that !NETIF_F_SG at write time implies > that the same held at alloc time and thus the skb has sufficient > tailroom. > > This issue predates git history. > > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") > Reported-by: Eric Dumazet > Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn > > --- > > v2: fix ipv4 boundary condition Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Willem.