This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible to the 3.14-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: vxlan-using-pskb_may_pull-as-early-as-possible.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Nov 7 11:37:05 PST 2014 From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:17:18 +0800 Subject: vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 91269e390d062b526432f2ef1352b8df82e0e0bc ] pskb_may_pull should be used to check if skb->data has enough space, skb->len can not ensure that. Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -1447,9 +1447,6 @@ static int neigh_reduce(struct net_devic if (!in6_dev) goto out; - if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len)) - goto out; - iphdr = ipv6_hdr(skb); saddr = &iphdr->saddr; daddr = &iphdr->daddr; @@ -1979,7 +1976,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_ return arp_reduce(dev, skb); #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) else if (ntohs(eth->h_proto) == ETH_P_IPV6 && - skb->len >= sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + sizeof(struct nd_msg) && + pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + + sizeof(struct nd_msg)) && ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr == IPPROTO_ICMPV6) { struct nd_msg *msg; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/vxlan-fix-a-use-after-free-in-vxlan_encap_bypass.patch queue-3.14/vxlan-using-pskb_may_pull-as-early-as-possible.patch queue-3.14/vxlan-fix-a-free-after-use.patch queue-3.14/ipv4-fix-a-potential-use-after-free-in-ip_tunnel_core.c.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