[PATCH 4.4 16/20] net: introduce device min_header_len

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 217e6fa24ce28ec87fca8da93c9016cb78028612 ]

The stack must not pass packets to device drivers that are shorter
than the minimum link layer header length.

Previously, packet sockets would drop packets smaller than or equal
to dev->hard_header_len, but this has false positives. Zero length
payload is used over Ethernet. Other link layer protocols support
variable length headers. Support for validation of these protocols
removed the min length check for all protocols.

Introduce an explicit dev->min_header_len parameter and drop all
packets below this value. Initially, set it to non-zero only for
Ethernet and loopback. Other protocols can follow in a patch to
net-next.

Fixes: 9ed988cd5915 ("packet: validate variable length ll headers")
Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/loopback.c    |    1 +
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    4 ++++
 net/ethernet/eth.c        |    1 +
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_de
 {
 	dev->mtu		= 64 * 1024;
 	dev->hard_header_len	= ETH_HLEN;	/* 14	*/
+	dev->min_header_len	= ETH_HLEN;	/* 14	*/
 	dev->addr_len		= ETH_ALEN;	/* 6	*/
 	dev->type		= ARPHRD_LOOPBACK;	/* 0x0001*/
 	dev->flags		= IFF_LOOPBACK;
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1399,6 +1399,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
  *	@mtu:		Interface MTU value
  *	@type:		Interface hardware type
  *	@hard_header_len: Maximum hardware header length.
+ *	@min_header_len:  Minimum hardware header length
  *
  *	@needed_headroom: Extra headroom the hardware may need, but not in all
  *			  cases can this be guaranteed
@@ -1619,6 +1620,7 @@ struct net_device {
 	unsigned int		mtu;
 	unsigned short		type;
 	unsigned short		hard_header_len;
+	unsigned short		min_header_len;
 
 	unsigned short		needed_headroom;
 	unsigned short		needed_tailroom;
@@ -2541,6 +2543,8 @@ static inline bool dev_validate_header(c
 {
 	if (likely(len >= dev->hard_header_len))
 		return true;
+	if (len < dev->min_header_len)
+		return false;
 
 	if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
 		memset(ll_header + len, 0, dev->hard_header_len - len);
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->header_ops		= &eth_header_ops;
 	dev->type		= ARPHRD_ETHER;
 	dev->hard_header_len 	= ETH_HLEN;
+	dev->min_header_len	= ETH_HLEN;
 	dev->mtu		= ETH_DATA_LEN;
 	dev->addr_len		= ETH_ALEN;
 	dev->tx_queue_len	= 1000;	/* Ethernet wants good queues */