On 11/29/2018 01:00 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

>> From: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit d7d8bbb40a5b1f682ee6589e212934f4c6b8ad60 ]
>>
>> The complete size ("total_size") of the fragmented packet is stored in the
>> fragment header and in the size of the fragment chain. When the fragments
>> are ready for merge, the skbuff's tail of the first fragment is expanded to
>> have enough room after the data pointer for at least total_size. This means
>> that it gets expanded by total_size - first_skb->len.
>>
>> But this is ignoring the fact that after expanding the buffer, the fragment
>> header is pulled by from this buffer. Assuming that the tailroom of the
> 
>    Pulled by what?

   Oops, this was a -stable patch! Nevermind then. :-)

>> buffer was already 0, the buffer after the data pointer of the skbuff is
>> now only total_size - len(fragment_header) large. When the merge function
>> is then processing the remaining fragments, the code to copy the data over
>> to the merged skbuff will cause an skb_over_panic when it tries to actually
>> put enough data to fill the total_size bytes of the packet.
>>
>> The size of the skb_pull must therefore also be taken into account when the
>> buffer's tailroom is expanded.
>>
>> Fixes: 610bfc6bc99b ("batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge")
>> Reported-by: Martin Weinelt <mar...@darmstadt.freifunk.net>
>> Co-authored-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luess...@c0d3.blue>
>> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <s...@simonwunderlich.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
> [...]
 
MBR, Sergei

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