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* [PATCH] pktgen: fix crash with vlan and packet size less than 46
@ 2012-09-12 23:32 Nishank Trivedi
  2012-09-12 23:33 ` Nishank Trivedi (nistrive)
  2012-09-13 21:10 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nishank Trivedi @ 2012-09-12 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: benve, Nishank Trivedi

If vlan option is being specified in the pktgen and packet size
being requested is less than 46 bytes, despite being illogical
request, pktgen should not crash the kernel.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88021fb82000
Process kpktgend_0 (pid: 1184, threadinfo ffff880215f1a000, task ffff880218544530)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0637cd2>] ? pktgen_finalize_skb+0x222/0x300 [pktgen]
[<ffffffff814f0084>] ? build_skb+0x34/0x1c0
[<ffffffffa0639b11>] pktgen_thread_worker+0x5d1/0x1790 [pktgen]
[<ffffffffa03ffb10>] ? igb_xmit_frame_ring+0xa30/0xa30 [igb]
[<ffffffff8107ba20>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffff8107ba20>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffffa0639540>] ? spin+0x240/0x240 [pktgen]
[<ffffffff8107b4e3>] kthread+0x93/0xa0
[<ffffffff81615de4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff8107b450>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff81615de0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

The root cause of why pktgen is not able to handle this case is due
to comparison of signed (datalen) and unsigned data (sizeof), which
eventually passes a huge number to skb_put().

Signed-off-by: Nishank Trivedi <nistrive@cisco.com>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index cce9e53..148e73d 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -2721,7 +2721,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *fill_packet_ipv4(struct net_device *odev,
 	/* Eth + IPh + UDPh + mpls */
 	datalen = pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size - 14 - 20 - 8 -
 		  pkt_dev->pkt_overhead;
-	if (datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))
+	if (datalen < 0 || datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))
 		datalen = sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr);
 
 	udph->source = htons(pkt_dev->cur_udp_src);
-- 
1.7.11.4

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