From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, James Hughes , Arend van Spriel , Kalle Valo Subject: [PATCH 4.9 076/103] brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 16:12:45 +0200 Message-Id: <20170511141216.618383162@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170511141210.778405364@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170511141210.778405364@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: James Hughes commit 455a1eb4654c24560eb9dfc634f29cba3d87601e upstream. The incoming skb header may be resized if header space is insufficient, which might change the data adddress in the skb. Ensure that a cached pointer to that data is correctly set by moving assignment to after any possible changes. Signed-off-by: James Hughes Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xm int ret; struct brcmf_if *ifp = netdev_priv(ndev); struct brcmf_pub *drvr = ifp->drvr; - struct ethhdr *eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data); + struct ethhdr *eh; brcmf_dbg(DATA, "Enter, bsscfgidx=%d\n", ifp->bsscfgidx); @@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xm goto done; } + eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data); + if (eh->h_proto == htons(ETH_P_PAE)) atomic_inc(&ifp->pend_8021x_cnt);