[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 2badfc3a55d2d72f57b15b3985a6b806ae953429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:17:18 +0800
Subject: vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible

[ Upstream commit 91269e390d062b526432f2ef1352b8df82e0e0bc ]

pskb_may_pull should be used to check if skb->data has enough space,
skb->len can not ensure that.

Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 311d63d..0969176 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1337,9 +1337,6 @@ static int neigh_reduce(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (!in6_dev)
 		goto out;

-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len))
-		goto out;
-
 	iphdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 	saddr = &iphdr->saddr;
 	daddr = &iphdr->daddr;
@@ -1886,7 +1883,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 			return arp_reduce(dev, skb);
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
 		else if (ntohs(eth->h_proto) == ETH_P_IPV6 &&
-			 skb->len >= sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + sizeof(struct nd_msg) &&
+			 pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)
+				       + sizeof(struct nd_msg)) &&
 			 ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr == IPPROTO_ICMPV6) {
 				struct nd_msg *msg;

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1.9.1