Re: Fw: [Bug 4279] New: When I try to start vpnc the net/core/skbuff.c:91 crash

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:48:47 +0100
Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> > 
> >> Looks like a something wrong with tun driver on 2.6.11
> > 
> > Thanks for forwarding this. I'll take a look at it.
> > As far as I remember nothing really changed in the TUN write logic.
> > Must be some other changes broke it.
> 
> This check is wrong, gcc optimizes it away:
> 
>                 if ((len -= sizeof(pi)) > len)
>                       return -EINVAL;
> 
> This could be responsible for the BUG. If len is 2 or 3 and TUN_NO_PI
> isn't set it underflows. alloc_skb() allocates len + 2, which is 0 or
> 1 byte. skb_reserve tries to reserve 2 bytes and things explode in
> skb_put.

Good catch Patrick.

Patch applied, thanks.