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SubjectRe: [PATCH 40/61] SCTP: Always linearise packet on input
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:34:20PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> ------------------
>
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> I was looking at a RHEL5 bug report involving Xen and SCTP
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212550).
> It turns out that SCTP wasn't written to handle skb fragments at
> all. The absence of any calls to skb_may_pull is testament to
> that.
>
> It just so happens that Xen creates fragmented packets more often
> than other scenarios (header & data split when going from domU to
> dom0). That's what caused this bug to show up.
>
> Until someone has the time sits down and audits the entire net/sctp
> directory, here is a conservative and safe solution that simply
> linearises all packets on input.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
>
> ---
> net/sctp/input.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> --- linux-2.6.18.1.orig/net/sctp/input.c
> +++ linux-2.6.18.1/net/sctp/input.c
> @@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ int sctp_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
>
> SCTP_INC_STATS_BH(SCTP_MIB_INSCTPPACKS);
>
> + if (skb_linearize(skb))
> + goto discard_it;
> +
> sh = (struct sctphdr *) skb->h.raw;
>
> /* Pull up the IP and SCTP headers. */


Herbert, David,

This one seems to be valid for 2.4 too. Should I merge it or is it
unneeded ?

Willy

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