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Xie He 88c7a9fd9b net: lapb: Copy the skb before sending a packet
When sending a packet, we will prepend it with an LAPB header.
This modifies the shared parts of a cloned skb, so we should copy the
skb rather than just clone it, before we prepend the header.

In "Documentation/networking/driver.rst" (the 2nd point), it states
that drivers shouldn't modify the shared parts of a cloned skb when
transmitting.

The "dev_queue_xmit_nit" function in "net/core/dev.c", which is called
when an skb is being sent, clones the skb and sents the clone to
AF_PACKET sockets. Because the LAPB drivers first remove a 1-byte
pseudo-header before handing over the skb to us, if we don't copy the
skb before prepending the LAPB header, the first byte of the packets
received on AF_PACKET sockets can be corrupted.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210201055706.415842-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-02-02 08:40:48 -08:00
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Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
lapb_iface.c net: lapb: Add locking to the lapb module 2021-01-26 17:53:45 -08:00
lapb_in.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 41 2019-05-24 17:27:12 +02:00
lapb_out.c net: lapb: Copy the skb before sending a packet 2021-02-02 08:40:48 -08:00
lapb_subr.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 41 2019-05-24 17:27:12 +02:00
lapb_timer.c net: lapb: Add locking to the lapb module 2021-01-26 17:53:45 -08:00