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| author | Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> | 2017-02-07 15:57:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-02-18 16:39:27 +0100 |
| commit | 58691e5b4f277cf1876dc95654a794b093f88a0f (patch) | |
| tree | 0b10eab71333229744772722d77d0fa976747a46 /drivers | |
| parent | 6f99825e7632ba94b0e5f9986e5f64d9eb9370b1 (diff) | |
net: introduce device min_header_len
[ Upstream commit 217e6fa24ce28ec87fca8da93c9016cb78028612 ]
The stack must not pass packets to device drivers that are shorter
than the minimum link layer header length.
Previously, packet sockets would drop packets smaller than or equal
to dev->hard_header_len, but this has false positives. Zero length
payload is used over Ethernet. Other link layer protocols support
variable length headers. Support for validation of these protocols
removed the min length check for all protocols.
Introduce an explicit dev->min_header_len parameter and drop all
packets below this value. Initially, set it to non-zero only for
Ethernet and loopback. Other protocols can follow in a patch to
net-next.
Fixes: 9ed988cd5915 ("packet: validate variable length ll headers")
Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/loopback.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index dc7d970bd1c0..effcdbfb06e9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev) { dev->mtu = 64 * 1024; dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN; /* 14 */ + dev->min_header_len = ETH_HLEN; /* 14 */ dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; /* 6 */ dev->type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK; /* 0x0001*/ dev->flags = IFF_LOOPBACK; |