batman-adv: fix potential kernel paging error for unicast transmissions
authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:50:37 +0000 (21:50 +0100)
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:17:02 +0000 (17:17 +0100)
batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast(_4addr) might reallocate the
skb's data. If it does then our ethhdr pointer is not valid
anymore in batadv_send_skb_unicast(), resulting in a kernel
paging error.

Fixing this by refetching the ethhdr pointer after the
potential reallocation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
net/batman-adv/send.c

index 579f5f0..843febd 100644 (file)
@@ -254,9 +254,9 @@ static int batadv_send_skb_unicast(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
                                   struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node,
                                   unsigned short vid)
 {
-       struct ethhdr *ethhdr = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
+       struct ethhdr *ethhdr;
        struct batadv_unicast_packet *unicast_packet;
-       int ret = NET_XMIT_DROP;
+       int ret = NET_XMIT_DROP, hdr_size;
 
        if (!orig_node)
                goto out;
@@ -265,12 +265,16 @@ static int batadv_send_skb_unicast(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
        case BATADV_UNICAST:
                if (!batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast(skb, orig_node))
                        goto out;
+
+               hdr_size = sizeof(*unicast_packet);
                break;
        case BATADV_UNICAST_4ADDR:
                if (!batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast_4addr(bat_priv, skb,
                                                           orig_node,
                                                           packet_subtype))
                        goto out;
+
+               hdr_size = sizeof(struct batadv_unicast_4addr_packet);
                break;
        default:
                /* this function supports UNICAST and UNICAST_4ADDR only. It
@@ -279,6 +283,7 @@ static int batadv_send_skb_unicast(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
                goto out;
        }
 
+       ethhdr = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data + hdr_size);
        unicast_packet = (struct batadv_unicast_packet *)skb->data;
 
        /* inform the destination node that we are still missing a correct route