Eric Woudstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the conntrack hook it may not always be the case that:
> skb_network_header(skb) == skb->data.
>
> This is problematic when L4 function nf_conntrack_handle_packet()
> is accessing L3 data. This function uses thoff and ip_hdr()
> to finds it's data. But it also calculates the checksum.
> nf_checksum() and nf_checksum_partial() both use lower skb-checksum
> functions that are based on using skb->data.
>
> When skb_network_header(skb) != skb->data, adjust accordingly,
> so that the checksum is calculated correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Woudstra <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/netfilter/utils.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/utils.c b/net/netfilter/utils.c
> index 008419db815a..9ba822983bc0 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/utils.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/utils.c
> @@ -124,16 +124,20 @@ __sum16 nf_checksum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int
> hook,
> unsigned int dataoff, u8 protocol,
> unsigned short family)
> {
> + unsigned int nhpull = skb_network_header(skb) - skb->data;
skb_network_offset() ?
And can you add a comment that tells why there is a need
for pull/push pair despite the dataoff - nhpull argument?
> + DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb_pointer_if_linear(skb, nhpull, 0));
maybe if (DEBUG_NET_WARN ...
return 0 ?
> @@ -143,18 +147,22 @@ __sum16 nf_checksum_partial(struct sk_buff *skb,
> unsigned int hook,
> unsigned int dataoff, unsigned int len,
> u8 protocol, unsigned short family)
> {
> + unsigned int nhpull = skb_network_header(skb) - skb->data;
> __sum16 csum = 0;
> + DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb_pointer_if_linear(skb, nhpull, 0));
> + __skb_pull(skb, nhpull);
Same here, but no need to copy the comment from nf_checksum, its enough
to say something like "see nf_checksum()".
