From: Felix Fietkau Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:57:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add a fix for tun/tap related crashes (backported by Carlos Sobrinho) X-Git-Tag: reboot~30541 X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d531dbf84fb891726a24b9067397b8a425ff418 add a fix for tun/tap related crashes (backported by Carlos Sobrinho) SVN-Revision: 5352 --- diff --git a/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/230-tun_get_user_backport.patch b/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/230-tun_get_user_backport.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..636ffec11d --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/230-tun_get_user_backport.patch @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +--- linux-2.4.32/drivers/net/tun.c 2006-10-28 18:21:45.000000000 +0100 ++++ new.linux-2.4.32/drivers/net/tun.c 2006-10-28 18:50:53.000000000 +0100 +@@ -185,22 +185,31 @@ + { + struct tun_pi pi = { 0, __constant_htons(ETH_P_IP) }; + struct sk_buff *skb; +- size_t len = count; ++ size_t len = count, align = 0; + + if (!(tun->flags & TUN_NO_PI)) { + if ((len -= sizeof(pi)) > count) + return -EINVAL; + +- memcpy_fromiovec((void *)&pi, iv, sizeof(pi)); ++ if(memcpy_fromiovec((void *)&pi, iv, sizeof(pi))) ++ return -EFAULT; + } +- +- if (!(skb = alloc_skb(len + 2, GFP_KERNEL))) { ++ ++ if ((tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) == TUN_TAP_DEV) ++ align = NET_IP_ALIGN; ++ ++ if (!(skb = alloc_skb(len + align, GFP_KERNEL))) { + tun->stats.rx_dropped++; + return -ENOMEM; + } + +- skb_reserve(skb, 2); +- memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), iv, len); ++ if (align) ++ skb_reserve(skb, align); ++ if (memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), iv, len)) { ++ tun->stats.rx_dropped++; ++ kfree_skb(skb); ++ return -EFAULT; ++ } + + skb->dev = &tun->dev; + switch (tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) { +@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ + pi.flags |= TUN_PKT_STRIP; + } + +- memcpy_toiovec(iv, (void *) &pi, sizeof(pi)); ++ if(memcpy_toiovec(iv, (void *) &pi, sizeof(pi))) ++ return -EFAULT; + total += sizeof(pi); + } + +--- linux-2.4.32/include/linux/skbuff.h 2006-10-28 19:31:31.000000000 +0100 ++++ new.linux-2.4.32/include/linux/skbuff.h 2006-10-28 19:29:27.000000000 +0100 +@@ -918,6 +918,49 @@ + skb->tail+=len; + } + ++/* ++ * CPUs often take a performance hit when accessing unaligned memory ++ * locations. The actual performance hit varies, it can be small if the ++ * hardware handles it or large if we have to take an exception and fix it ++ * in software. ++ * ++ * Since an ethernet header is 14 bytes network drivers often end up with ++ * the IP header at an unaligned offset. The IP header can be aligned by ++ * shifting the start of the packet by 2 bytes. Drivers should do this ++ * with: ++ * ++ * skb_reserve(NET_IP_ALIGN); ++ * ++ * The downside to this alignment of the IP header is that the DMA is now ++ * unaligned. On some architectures the cost of an unaligned DMA is high ++ * and this cost outweighs the gains made by aligning the IP header. ++ * ++ * Since this trade off varies between architectures, we allow NET_IP_ALIGN ++ * to be overridden. ++ */ ++#ifndef NET_IP_ALIGN ++#define NET_IP_ALIGN 2 ++#endif ++ ++/* ++ * The networking layer reserves some headroom in skb data (via ++ * dev_alloc_skb). This is used to avoid having to reallocate skb data when ++ * the header has to grow. In the default case, if the header has to grow ++ * 16 bytes or less we avoid the reallocation. ++ * ++ * Unfortunately this headroom changes the DMA alignment of the resulting ++ * network packet. As for NET_IP_ALIGN, this unaligned DMA is expensive ++ * on some architectures. An architecture can override this value, ++ * perhaps setting it to a cacheline in size (since that will maintain ++ * cacheline alignment of the DMA). It must be a power of 2. ++ * ++ * Various parts of the networking layer expect at least 16 bytes of ++ * headroom, you should not reduce this. ++ */ ++#ifndef NET_SKB_PAD ++#define NET_SKB_PAD 16 ++#endif ++ + extern int ___pskb_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len, int realloc); + + static inline void __skb_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)