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packet: validate variable length ll headers
authorWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:58:34 +0000 (21:58 -0500)
committerDhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:22:00 +0000 (17:22 -0500)
commit6c1a713b529e2121eedb0221409a0cf21485e4e3
tree0e95f266af0df38b5bdb14384451c2cc0088aff8
parent6a53def3155be8e1bc02e8a3b30d100e0a9baf2f
packet: validate variable length ll headers

Orabug: 25308054

[ Upstream commit 9ed988cd591500c040b2a6257bc68543e08ceeef ]

Replace link layer header validation check ll_header_truncate with
more generic dev_validate_header.

Validation based on hard_header_len incorrectly drops valid packets
in variable length protocols, such as AX25. dev_validate_header
calls header_ops.validate for such protocols to ensure correctness
below hard_header_len.

See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401064

Fixes 9c7077622dd9 ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller than l2 header")
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit 795f5dc952b62c0a4afe5d8872f6f16372243293)
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
net/packet/af_packet.c