ipv6: Fix udp checksums with raw sockets
authorVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Fri, 15 May 2015 00:34:08 +0000 (20:34 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 15 May 2015 02:27:03 +0000 (22:27 -0400)
It was reported that trancerout6 would cause
a kernel to crash when trying to compute checksums
on raw UDP packets.  The cause was the check in
__ip6_append_data that would attempt to use
partial checksums on the packet.  However,
raw sockets do not initialize partial checksum
fields so partial checksums can't be used.

Solve this the same way IPv4 does it.  raw sockets
pass transhdrlen value of 0 to ip_append_data which
causes the checksum to be computed in software.  Use
the same check in ip6_append_data (check transhdrlen).

Reported-by: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
CC: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c

index c21777565c58cabd7649cc48b790ff21c88498b5..bc09cb97b8401011c112afe469fd231382387622 100644 (file)
@@ -1300,8 +1300,10 @@ emsgsize:
 
        /* If this is the first and only packet and device
         * supports checksum offloading, let's use it.
+        * Use transhdrlen, same as IPv4, because partial
+        * sums only work when transhdrlen is set.
         */
-       if (!skb && sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP &&
+       if (transhdrlen && sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP &&
            length + fragheaderlen < mtu &&
            rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_V6_CSUM &&
            !exthdrlen)