On 25 April 2017 at 10:10, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspr...@broadcom.com> wrote:
> An issue was found brcmfmac driver in which a skbuff in .start_xmit()
> callback was actually cloned. So instead of checking for sufficient
> headroom it should also be writable. Hence use skb_cow_head() to
> check and expand the headroom appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspr...@broadcom.com>
> ---
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Did a recursive grep in drivers/net/wireless and found a similar
> case in ath6kl. I do not have the hardware to test so this is
> only compile tested.
>
> Regards,
> Arend
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c | 13 ++++---------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
> index a531e0c..e6b2517 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/txrx.c
> @@ -399,15 +399,10 @@ int ath6kl_data_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> net_device *dev)
> csum_dest = skb->csum_offset + csum_start;
> }
>
> - if (skb_headroom(skb) < dev->needed_headroom) {
> - struct sk_buff *tmp_skb = skb;
> -
> - skb = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, dev->needed_headroom);
> - kfree_skb(tmp_skb);
> - if (skb == NULL) {
> - dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
> - return 0;
> - }
> + if (skb_cow_head(skb, dev->needed_headroom)) {
> + dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
> + kfree_skb(skb);
> + return 0;
> }
>
> if (ath6kl_wmi_dix_2_dot3(ar->wmi, skb)) {
> --
> 1.9.1
>
Not sure if this is the right place to comment on this, but I've had a
quick look around various network drivers, and there are similar
constructs in a LOT of drivers. I've picked two at random, and both
seem to show this issue. When the issue first came up in a USB
attached smsc ethernet driver, at least 6 other drivers with similar
faults were found in the net/usb tree. Now I could just be being
paranoid, and am missing something, so here are the files I looked
at...
drivers/net/marvell/mwifiex/uap_txrx.c line 161 - no relevant skb_cow
operations in this file, but changes are made to the buffers
/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c line 6657 - ditto
I'm a bit of a beginner at this stuff, so not sure how this should be
taken forward.
James
