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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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