This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: reset network header before passing to taps
to the 3.16-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:
netlink-reset-network-header-before-passing-to-taps.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 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 Sun Oct 12 20:11:55 CEST 2014
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 22:22:47 +0200
Subject: netlink: reset network header before passing to taps
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4e48ed883c72e78c5a910f8831ffe90c9b18f0ec ]
netlink doesn't set any network header offset thus when the skb is
being passed to tap devices via dev_queue_xmit_nit(), it emits klog
false positives due to it being unset like:
...
[ 124.990397] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
[ 124.990411] protocol 0000 is buggy, dev nlmon0
...
So just reset the network header before passing to the device; for
packet sockets that just means nothing will change - mac and net
offset hold the same value just as before.
Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int __netlink_deliver_tap_skb(str
nskb->protocol = htons((u16) sk->sk_protocol);
nskb->pkt_type = netlink_is_kernel(sk) ?
PACKET_KERNEL : PACKET_USER;
-
+ skb_reset_network_header(nskb);
ret = dev_queue_xmit(nskb);
if (unlikely(ret > 0))
ret = net_xmit_errno(ret);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/netlink-reset-network-header-before-passing-to-taps.patch
queue-3.16/net-filter-fix-possible-use-after-free.patch
queue-3.16/packet-handle-too-big-packets-for-packet_v3.patch
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