Commit 9c7077622dd91 ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller than l2 header") added validation for the packet size in packet_snd. This change enforces that every packet needs a header (with at least hard_header_len bytes) plus a payload with at least one byte. Before this change the payload was optional.
This fixes PPPoE connections which do not have a "Service" or "Host-Uniq" configured (which is violating the spec, but is still widely used in real-world setups). Those are currently failing with the following message: "pppd: packet size is too short (24 <= 24)" Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com> --- v3: Fixed a whitespace error (detected by checkpatch.pl) and updated the commit message to point to the original commit correctly. Thanks to Sergei Shtylyov for reporting these. v2: Simply change the existing logic in ll_header_truncated instead of splitting it and having multiple checks. include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ++- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 67bfac1..9a488ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1398,7 +1398,8 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags { * @dma: DMA channel * @mtu: Interface MTU value * @type: Interface hardware type - * @hard_header_len: Hardware header length + * @hard_header_len: Hardware header length, which means that this is the + * minimum size of a packet. * * @needed_headroom: Extra headroom the hardware may need, but not in all * cases can this be guaranteed diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 1cf928f..992396a 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -2329,8 +2329,8 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) static bool ll_header_truncated(const struct net_device *dev, int len) { /* net device doesn't like empty head */ - if (unlikely(len <= dev->hard_header_len)) { - net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d <= %d)\n", + if (unlikely(len < dev->hard_header_len)) { + net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d < %d)\n", current->comm, len, dev->hard_header_len); return true; } -- 2.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html