[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "l2tp: Fix PPP header erasure and memory leak" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    l2tp: Fix PPP header erasure and memory leak

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 7057724595f538e7acc17f5e300b3d8b28cfef93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:07:23 +0200
Subject: l2tp: Fix PPP header erasure and memory leak

[ Upstream commit 55b92b7a11690bc377b5d373872a6b650ae88e64 ]

Copy user data after PPP framing header. This prevents erasure of the
added PPP header and avoids leaking two bytes of uninitialised memory
at the end of skb's data buffer.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
index 044e9e1..88ba2e4 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -345,12 +345,12 @@ static int pppol2tp_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msgh
 	skb_put(skb, 2);

 	/* Copy user data into skb */
-	error = memcpy_fromiovec(skb->data, m->msg_iov, total_len);
+	error = memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, total_len), m->msg_iov,
+				 total_len);
 	if (error < 0) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		goto error_put_sess_tun;
 	}
-	skb_put(skb, total_len);

 	l2tp_xmit_skb(session, skb, session->hdr_len);

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1.8.1.2