Hi Keir:
This patch is required for anyone still using netloop.
[NET] netloop: Do not clobber cloned skb page frags
The netloop driver tries to localise foreign mappings by
copying them. Unfortunately, it does so by directly modifying
skb page frags without checking whether the skb is cloned or
not. In fact, the packet is going to be cloned more often
than not.
This may result in either data corruption on DMA or a
page fault in dom0 which kills the whole machine.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,
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diff -r 88a17da7f336 drivers/xen/netback/loopback.c
--- a/drivers/xen/netback/loopback.c Thu Jul 26 16:36:52 2007 +0100
+++ b/drivers/xen/netback/loopback.c Tue Jul 31 18:59:11 2007 +0800
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ static int skb_remove_foreign_references
 
 BUG_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list);
 
+ if (skb_cloned(skb) &&
+ unlikely(pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)))
+ return 0;
+
 for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
 pfn = page_to_pfn(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 if (!is_foreign(pfn))
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