From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:48:16 +0800

> For IPv6, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) = 40, thus the following
> expression will result negative:
> 
>         datalen = pkt_dev->cur_pkt_size - 14 -
>                   sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) -
>                   pkt_dev->pkt_overhead;
> 
> And,  the check "if (datalen < sizeof(struct pktgen_hdr))" will be
> passed as "datalen" is promoted to unsigned, therefore will cause
> a crash later.
> 
> This is a quick fix by checking if "datalen" is negative. The following
> patch will increase the default value of 'min_pkt_size' for IPv6.
> 
> This bug should exist for a long time, so Cc -stable too.
> 
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>

Applied.
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