4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 9aad13b087ab0a588cd68259de618f100053360e ]

Commit b84bbaf7a6c8 ("packet: in packet_snd start writing at link
layer allocation") ensures that packet_snd always starts writing
the link layer header in reserved headroom allocated for this
purpose.

This is needed because packets may be shorter than hard_header_len,
in which case the space up to hard_header_len may be zeroed. But
that necessary padding is not accounted for in skb->len.

The fix, however, is buggy. It calls skb_push, which grows skb->len
when moving skb->data back. But in this case packet length should not
change.

Instead, call skb_reserve, which moves both skb->data and skb->tail
back, without changing length.

Fixes: b84bbaf7a6c8 ("packet: in packet_snd start writing at link layer 
allocation")
Reported-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2918,7 +2918,7 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *soc
                if (unlikely(offset < 0))
                        goto out_free;
        } else if (reserve) {
-               skb_push(skb, reserve);
+               skb_reserve(skb, -reserve);
        }
 
        /* Returns -EFAULT on error */


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