This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled packet: infer protocol from ethernet header if unset to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Dec 11 11:39:46 EST 2015 From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:25:43 +0100 Subject: packet: infer protocol from ethernet header if unset From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c72219b75fde768efccf7666342282fab7f9e4e7 ] In case no struct sockaddr_ll has been passed to packet socket's sendmsg() when doing a TX_RING flush run, then skb->protocol is set to po->num instead, which is the protocol passed via socket(2)/bind(2). Applications only xmitting can go the path of allocating the socket as socket(PF_PACKET, <mode>, 0) and do a bind(2) on the TX_RING with sll_protocol of 0. That way, register_prot_hook() is neither called on creation nor on bind time, which saves cycles when there's no interest in capturing anyway. That leaves us however with po->num 0 instead and therefore the TX_RING flush run sets skb->protocol to 0 as well. Eric reported that this leads to problems when using tools like trafgen over bonding device. I.e. the bonding's hash function could invoke the kernel's flow dissector, which depends on skb->protocol being properly set. In the current situation, all the traffic is then directed to a single slave. Fix it up by inferring skb->protocol from the Ethernet header when not set and we have ARPHRD_ETHER device type. This is only done in case of SOCK_RAW and where we have a dev->hard_header_len length. In case of ARPHRD_ETHER devices, this is guaranteed to cover ETH_HLEN, and therefore being accessed on the skb after the skb_store_bits(). Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -1945,6 +1945,15 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct sock_wfree(skb); } +static void tpacket_set_protocol(const struct net_device *dev, + struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + if (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) { + skb_reset_mac_header(skb); + skb->protocol = eth_hdr(skb)->h_proto; + } +} + static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb, void *frame, struct net_device *dev, int size_max, __be16 proto, unsigned char *addr, int hlen) @@ -2031,6 +2040,8 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packe dev->hard_header_len); if (unlikely(err)) return err; + if (!skb->protocol) + tpacket_set_protocol(dev, skb); data += dev->hard_header_len; to_write -= dev->hard_header_len; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch queue-3.10/ipv6-sctp-implement-sctp_v6_destroy_sock.patch queue-3.10/net-scm-fix-pax-detected-msg_controllen-overflow-in-scm_detach_fds.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html