From: James Hughes Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:40:50 +0000 (+0100) Subject: brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes X-Git-Tag: release-20171130_firefly~4^2~100^2~1^2~9^2~17 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d89c7a27b1a13cc62c4c0a2869e8812252f92c1;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes commit 455a1eb4654c24560eb9dfc634f29cba3d87601e upstream. The incoming skb header may be resized if header space is insufficient, which might change the data adddress in the skb. Ensure that a cached pointer to that data is correctly set by moving assignment to after any possible changes. Signed-off-by: James Hughes Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c index b5ab98ee1445..eb0e9fde6d54 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, int ret; struct brcmf_if *ifp = netdev_priv(ndev); struct brcmf_pub *drvr = ifp->drvr; - struct ethhdr *eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data); + struct ethhdr *eh; brcmf_dbg(DATA, "Enter, idx=%d\n", ifp->bssidx); @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, goto done; } + eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data); + if (eh->h_proto == htons(ETH_P_PAE)) atomic_inc(&ifp->pend_8021x_cnt);