Re: x25: possible skb leak on bad facilities

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:08:15 +1100

> 
> Originally x25_parse_facilities returned
> -1 for an error
>  0 meaning 0 length facilities
>>0 the length of the facilities parsed.
> 
> 5ef41308f94dc introduced more error checking in x25_parse_facilities
> however used 0 to indicate bad parsing
> a6331d6f9a429 followed this further for DTE facilities, again using 0 for bad parsing.
> 
> The meaning of 0 got confused in the callers.
> If the facilities are messed up we can't determine where the data starts.
> So patch makes all parsing errors return -1 and ensures callers close and don't use the skb further.
> 
> Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@xxxxxxxxx>

Please reference the commit header line text when referring to SHA1
IDs, because when backporting to other GIT trees the SHA1 IDs might be
different.

I took care of this when applying your patch, thanks.

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