batman-adv: Linearize fragment packets before merge

We access the data inside the skbs of two fragments directly using memmove during the merge. The data of the skb could span over multiple skb pages. An direct access without knowledge about the pages would lead to an invalid memory access. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> [[email protected]: Move return from function to the end] Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
ValorVl · Feb 7, 2011 · 531c9da · 531c9da
1 parent 1181e1d
commit 531c9da
Showing 1 changed file with 10 additions and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/unicast.c b/net/batman-adv/unicast.c
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *frag_merge_packet(struct list_head *head,
 		skb = tfp->skb;
 	}
 
+	if (skb_linearize(skb) < 0 || skb_linearize(tmp_skb) < 0)
+		goto err;
+
 	skb_pull(tmp_skb, sizeof(struct unicast_frag_packet));
-	if (pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, tmp_skb->len, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0) {
-		/* free buffered skb, skb will be freed later */
-		kfree_skb(tfp->skb);
-		return NULL;
-	}
+	if (pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, tmp_skb->len, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0)
+		goto err;
 
 	/* move free entry to end */
 	tfp->skb = NULL;
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *frag_merge_packet(struct list_head *head,
 	unicast_packet->packet_type = BAT_UNICAST;
 
 	return skb;
+
+err:
+	/* free buffered skb, skb will be freed later */
+	kfree_skb(tfp->skb);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static void frag_create_entry(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)