Patch "skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
skbuff-fix-skb-checksum-flag-on-skb-pull.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:57:53 -0700
Subject: skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull

From: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 6ae459bdaaeebc632b16e54dcbabb490c6931d61 ]

VXLAN device can receive skb with checksum partial. But the checksum offset could be in outer header which is pulled on receive. This results in negative checksum offset for the skb. Such skb can cause the assert failure in skb_checksum_help(). Following patch fixes the bug by setting checksum-none while pulling outer header.

Following is the kernel panic msg from old kernel hitting the bug.

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1906!
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81518034>] skb_checksum_help+0x144/0x150
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<ffffffffa0164c28>] queue_userspace_packet+0x408/0x470 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016614d>] ovs_dp_upcall+0x5d/0x60 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa0166236>] ovs_dp_process_packet_with_key+0xe6/0x100 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016629b>] ovs_dp_process_received_packet+0x4b/0x80 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa016c51a>] ovs_vport_receive+0x2a/0x30 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa0171383>] vxlan_rcv+0x53/0x60 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffffa01734cb>] vxlan_udp_encap_recv+0x8b/0xf0 [openvswitch]
[<ffffffff8157addc>] udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x2dc/0x3b0
[<ffffffff8157b56f>] __udp4_lib_rcv+0x1cf/0x6c0
[<ffffffff8157ba7a>] udp_rcv+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8154fdbd>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0xdd/0x280
[<ffffffff81550128>] ip_local_deliver+0x88/0x90
[<ffffffff8154fa7d>] ip_rcv_finish+0x10d/0x370
[<ffffffff81550365>] ip_rcv+0x235/0x300
[<ffffffff8151ba1d>] __netif_receive_skb+0x55d/0x620
[<ffffffff8151c360>] netif_receive_skb+0x80/0x90
[<ffffffff81459935>] virtnet_poll+0x555/0x6f0
[<ffffffff8151cd04>] net_rx_action+0x134/0x290
[<ffffffff810683d8>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x210
[<ffffffff8162fe6c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[<ffffffff810161a5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[<ffffffff810687be>] irq_exit+0x8e/0xb0
[<ffffffff81630733>] do_IRQ+0x63/0xe0
[<ffffffff81625f2e>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e

---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -2347,6 +2347,9 @@ static inline void skb_postpull_rcsum(st
 {
 	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE)
 		skb->csum = csum_sub(skb->csum, csum_partial(start, len, 0));
+	else if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
+		 skb_checksum_start_offset(skb) <= len)
+		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
 }
 
 unsigned char *skb_pull_rcsum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/skbuff-fix-skb-checksum-flag-on-skb-pull.patch queue-3.14/skbuff-fix-skb-checksum-partial-check.patch