Commit 8522b496 authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculations.

patch deea84b0 in mainline.

[NET]: Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculation

The calculation in SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD is incorrect in that it can cause
an overflow across a page boundary which is what it's meant to prevent.
In particular, the header length (X) should not be lumped together with
skb_shared_info.  The latter needs to be aligned properly while the header
has no choice but to sit in front of wherever the payload is.

Therefore the correct calculation is to take away the aligned size of
skb_shared_info, and then subtract the header length.  The resulting
quantity L satisfies the following inequality:

	SKB_DATA_ALIGN(L + X) + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) <= PAGE_SIZE

This is the quantity used by alloc_skb to do the actual allocation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent b3540573
......@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@
#define SKB_DATA_ALIGN(X) (((X) + (SMP_CACHE_BYTES - 1)) & \
~(SMP_CACHE_BYTES - 1))
#define SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(X) \
(((X) - sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) & \
~(SMP_CACHE_BYTES - 1))
((X) - SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)))
#define SKB_MAX_ORDER(X, ORDER) \
SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD((PAGE_SIZE << (ORDER)) - (X))
#define SKB_MAX_HEAD(X) (SKB_MAX_ORDER((X), 0))
......
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