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Fix UDP short packet false positive

Message ID 1233838027.20497.132.camel@localhost.localdomain
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer Feb. 5, 2009, 12:47 p.m. UTC
The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
buffer.

This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
receive.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
---

 net/ipv4/udp.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



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Comments

David Miller Feb. 5, 2009, 11:06 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:47:07 +0100

> 
> The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
> pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
> buffer.
> 
> This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
> as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
> receive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>

Excellent work!

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index 1ab180b..cc3a0a0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@  int __udp4_lib_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct udp_table *udptable,
 		   int proto)
 {
 	struct sock *sk;
-	struct udphdr *uh = udp_hdr(skb);
+	struct udphdr *uh;
 	unsigned short ulen;
 	struct rtable *rt = (struct rtable*)skb->dst;
 	__be32 saddr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
@@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@  int __udp4_lib_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct udp_table *udptable,
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr)))
 		goto drop;		/* No space for header. */
 
+	uh   = udp_hdr(skb);
 	ulen = ntohs(uh->len);
 	if (ulen > skb->len)
 		goto short_packet;