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Subject[086/101] net: Fix a memmove bug in dev_gro_receive()
2.6.33-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>

commit e5093aec2e6b60c3df2420057ffab9ed4a6d2792 upstream.

>Xin Xiaohui wrote:
> I looked into the code dev_gro_receive(), found the code here:
> if the frags[0] is pulled to 0, then the page will be released,
> and memmove() frags left.
> Is that right? I'm not sure if memmove do right or not, but
> frags[0].size is never set after memove at least. what I think
> a simple way is not to do anything if we found frags[0].size == 0.
> The patch is as followed.
...

This version of the patch fixes the bug directly in memmove.

Reported-by: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2664,7 +2664,7 @@ pull:
put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
memmove(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags,
skb_shinfo(skb)->frags + 1,
- --skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags);
+ --skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags * sizeof(skb_frag_t));
}
}




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