This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cx82310_eth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs 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: cx82310_eth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.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 a9e840a2081ed28c2b7caa6a9a0041c950b3c37d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:59:22 -0700 Subject: cx82310_eth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a9e840a2081ed28c2b7caa6a9a0041c950b3c37d upstream. We need to ensure there is enough headroom to push extra header, but we also need to check if we are allowed to change headers. skb_cow_head() is the proper helper to deal with this. Fixes: cc28a20e77b2 ("introduce cx82310_eth: Conexant CX82310-based ADSL router USB ethernet driver") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Hughes <james.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/cx82310_eth.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/cx82310_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cx82310_eth.c @@ -293,12 +293,9 @@ static struct sk_buff *cx82310_tx_fixup( { int len = skb->len; - if (skb_headroom(skb) < 2) { - struct sk_buff *skb2 = skb_copy_expand(skb, 2, 0, flags); + if (skb_cow_head(skb, 2)) { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); - skb = skb2; - if (!skb) - return NULL; + return NULL; } skb_push(skb, 2); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/lan78xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/cx82310_eth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/sr9700-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/smsc75xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch