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gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:44:54 +0000 (20:44 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:53:09 +0000 (16:53 -0700)
commit 66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a upstream.

On older kernels the VLAN code may zero skb->dev before dropping
it and causing it to be reused by GRO.

Unfortunately we didn't reset skb->dev in that case which causes
the next GRO user to get a bogus skb->dev pointer.

This particular problem no longer happens with the current upstream
kernel due to changes in VLAN processing.

However, for correctness we should still reset the skb->dev pointer
in the GRO reuse function in case a future user does the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/core/dev.c

index 29f936d2472922a909f6bca69c075a134ed43650..88027bc121d189240b685256a78970e7579378aa 100644 (file)
@@ -2746,6 +2746,7 @@ void napi_reuse_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        __skb_pull(skb, skb_headlen(skb));
        skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN - skb_headroom(skb));
+       skb->dev = napi->dev;
 
        napi->skb = skb;
 }