This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled macvtap: always pass ethernet header in linear to the 4.4-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: macvtap-always-pass-ethernet-header-in-linear.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 15:18:54 -0500 Subject: macvtap: always pass ethernet header in linear From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8e2ad4113ce4671686740f808ff2795395c39eef ] The stack expects link layer headers in the skb linear section. Macvtap can create skbs with llheader in frags in edge cases: when (IFF_VNET_HDR is off or vnet_hdr.hdr_len < ETH_HLEN) and prepad + len > PAGE_SIZE and vnet_hdr.flags has no or bad csum. Add checks to ensure linear is always at least ETH_HLEN. At this point, len is already ensured to be >= ETH_HLEN. For backwards compatiblity, rounds up short vnet_hdr.hdr_len. This differs from tap and packet, which return an error. Fixes b9fb9ee07e67 ("macvtap: add GSO/csum offload support") Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c @@ -760,6 +760,8 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m macvtap16_to_cpu(q, vnet_hdr.hdr_len) : GOODCOPY_LEN; if (copylen > good_linear) copylen = good_linear; + else if (copylen < ETH_HLEN) + copylen = ETH_HLEN; linear = copylen; i = *from; iov_iter_advance(&i, copylen); @@ -769,10 +771,11 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m if (!zerocopy) { copylen = len; - if (macvtap16_to_cpu(q, vnet_hdr.hdr_len) > good_linear) + linear = macvtap16_to_cpu(q, vnet_hdr.hdr_len); + if (linear > good_linear) linear = good_linear; - else - linear = macvtap16_to_cpu(q, vnet_hdr.hdr_len); + else if (linear < ETH_HLEN) + linear = ETH_HLEN; } skb = macvtap_alloc_skb(&q->sk, MACVTAP_RESERVE, copylen, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from willemb@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ax25-add-link-layer-header-validation-function.patch queue-4.4/net-validate-variable-length-ll-headers.patch queue-4.4/packet-validate-variable-length-ll-headers.patch queue-4.4/macvtap-always-pass-ethernet-header-in-linear.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-udp-fix-udp_mib_ignoredmulti-updates.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