Re: sparc oops in ip_fast_csum

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 21:02:29 EST


On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:22:04AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Actually if you read the code for ip_fast_csum it's obvious what has
> happened. %o1 == iph->ihl contains the value 2 which is bogus.
>
> [IPV4] raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph->ihl
>
> We currently check that iph->ihl is bounded by the real length and that
> the real length is greater than the minimum IP header length. However,
> we did not check the caes where iph->ihl is less than the minimum IP
> header length.
>
> This breaks because some ip_fast_csum implementations assume that which
> is quite reasonable.

Humm... Point, but that makes me wonder what other callers do...

E.g. what about ipt_REJECT.c::send_reset()? Or myri10ge_get_frag_header()?
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