Commit dbd46ab4 authored Jul 28, 2015 by Alexander Drozdov Committed by David S. Miller Jul 29, 2015

packet: tpacket_snd(): fix signed/unsigned comparison



tpacket_fill_skb() can return a negative value (-errno) which
is stored in tp_len variable. In that case the following
condition will be (but shouldn't be) true:

tp_len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len

as dev->mtu and dev->hard_header_len are both unsigned.

That may lead to just returning an incorrect EMSGSIZE errno
to the user.

Fixes: 52f1454f ("packet: allow to transmit +4 byte in TX_RING slot for VLAN case")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Drozdov <al.drozdov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 11c91ef9

net/packet/af_packet.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2403,7 +2403,8 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock po, struct msghdr msg)
		}
		tp_len = tpacket_fill_skb(po, skb, ph, dev, size_max, proto,
		addr, hlen);
		if (tp_len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len) {
		if (likely(tp_len >= 0) &&
		tp_len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len) {
		struct ethhdr *ehdr;
		/* Earlier code assumed this would be a VLAN pkt,
		* double-check this now that we have the actual

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