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authorholger@eitzenberger.org2013-05-03 02:02:20 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2013-05-03 22:10:33 +0200
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asix: fix BUG in receive path when lowering MTU
There is bug in the receive path of the asix driver at the time a packet is received larger than MTU size and DF bit set: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000004000000001 IP: [<ffffffff8126f65b>] skb_release_head_state+0x2d/0xd2 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8126f86d>] ? skb_release_all+0x9/0x1e [<ffffffff8126f8ad>] ? __kfree_skb+0x9/0x6f [<ffffffffa00b4200>] ? asix_rx_fixup_internal+0xff/0x1ae [asix] [<ffffffffa00fb3dc>] ? usbnet_bh+0x4f/0x226 [usbnet] ... It is easily reproducable by setting an MTU of 512 e. g. and sending something like ping -s 1472 -c 1 -M do $SELF from another box. And this is because the rx->ax_skb is freed on error, but rx->ax_skb is not reset, and the size is not reset to zero in this case. And since the skb is added again to the usbnet->done skb queue it is accessing already freed memory, resulting in the BUG when freeing a 2nd time. I therefore think the value 0x0000004000000001 show in the trace is more or less random data. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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