On 01.02.21 06:57, Xie He wrote:
> When sending a packet, we will prepend it with an LAPB header.
> This modifies the shared parts of a cloned skb, so we should copy the
> skb rather than just clone it, before we prepend the header.
>
> In "Documentation/networking/driver.rst" (the 2nd point), it states
> that drivers shouldn't modify the shared parts of a cloned skb when
> transmitting.
>
This sounds a bit like you want skb_cow_head() ... ?
> The "dev_queue_xmit_nit" function in "net/core/dev.c", which is called
> when an skb is being sent, clones the skb and sents the clone to
> AF_PACKET sockets. Because the LAPB drivers first remove a 1-byte
> pseudo-header before handing over the skb to us, if we don't copy the
> skb before prepending the LAPB header, the first byte of the packets
> received on AF_PACKET sockets can be corrupted.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/lapb/lapb_out.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/lapb/lapb_out.c b/net/lapb/lapb_out.c
> index 7a4d0715d1c3..a966d29c772d 100644
> --- a/net/lapb/lapb_out.c
> +++ b/net/lapb/lapb_out.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ void lapb_kick(struct lapb_cb *lapb)
> skb = skb_dequeue(&lapb->write_queue);
>
> do {
> - if ((skbn = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL) {
> + skbn = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + if (!skbn) {
> skb_queue_head(&lapb->write_queue, skb);
> break;
> }
>
