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Staging: batman-adv: ensure that eth_type_trans gets linear memory
authorMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:34:49 +0000 (12:34 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:53:14 +0000 (10:53 -0800)
commit7a896e4a85abb53e9428ca71a39ceb8b30827760
tree744d812b905df6518c39c103511c6b16ad7bd328
parent0049f61cde6bd5dfe82296466e61d5a33df937e7
Staging: batman-adv: ensure that eth_type_trans gets linear memory

eth_type_trans tries to pull data with the length of the ethernet header
from the skb. We only ensured that enough data for the first ethernet
header and the batman header is available in non-paged memory of the skb
and not for the ethernet after the batman header.

eth_type_trans would fail sometimes with drivers which don't ensure that
all there data is perfectly linearised.

The failure was noticed through a kernel bug Oops generated by the
skb_pull inside eth_type_trans.

Reported-by: Rafal Lesniak <lesniak@eresi-project.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/batman-adv/soft-interface.c