[PATCH] drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c: Fixed kernel panic when used with AF_PACKET sockets

From: Xie He
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 23:22:07 EST


When we use "AF_PACKET" sockets to send data directly over LAPB over
Ethernet using this driver, the kernel will panic because of
insufficient header space allocated in the "sk_buff" struct.

The header space needs 18 bytes because:
the lapbether driver will remove a pseudo header of 1 byte;
the lapb module will prepend the LAPB header of 2 or 3 bytes;
the lapbether driver will prepend a length field of 2 bytes and the
Ethernet header of 14 bytes.

So -1 + 3 + 16 = 18.

Signed-off-by: Xie He <hexie3605@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
index e30d91a38cfb..619413f5d432 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c
@@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ static void lapbeth_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->netdev_ops = &lapbeth_netdev_ops;
dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
dev->type = ARPHRD_X25;
- dev->hard_header_len = 3;
+ /* 18 = -1 (lapbether) + 3 (lapb) + 16 (lapbether) */
+ dev->hard_header_len = 18;
dev->mtu = 1000;
dev->addr_len = 0;
}
--
2.25.1