Patch "packet: validate variable length ll headers" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

@@ -1916,6 +1916,10 @@ retry:
 		goto retry;
 	}
 
+	if (!dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, len)) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
 	if (len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + extra_len) &&
 	    !packet_extra_vlan_len_allowed(dev, skb)) {
 		err = -EMSGSIZE;

@@ -2326,18 +2330,6 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct
 	sock_wfree(skb);
 }
 
-static bool ll_header_truncated(const struct net_device *dev, int len)
-{
-	/* net device doesn't like empty head */
-	if (unlikely(len < dev->hard_header_len)) {
-		net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d < %d)\n",
-				     current->comm, len, dev->hard_header_len);
-		return true;
-	}
-
-	return false;
-}
-
 static void tpacket_set_protocol(const struct net_device *dev,
 				 struct sk_buff *skb)
 {

@@ -2420,19 +2412,19 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packe
 		if (unlikely(err < 0))
 			return -EINVAL;
 	} else if (dev->hard_header_len) {
-		if (ll_header_truncated(dev, tp_len))
-			return -EINVAL;
+		int hdrlen = min_t(int, dev->hard_header_len, tp_len);
 
 		skb_push(skb, dev->hard_header_len);
-		err = skb_store_bits(skb, 0, data,
-				dev->hard_header_len);
+		err = skb_store_bits(skb, 0, data, hdrlen);
 		if (unlikely(err))
 			return err;
+		if (!dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, hdrlen))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		if (!skb->protocol)
 			tpacket_set_protocol(dev, skb);
 
-		data += dev->hard_header_len;
-		to_write -= dev->hard_header_len;
+		data += hdrlen;
+		to_write -= hdrlen;
 	}
 
 	offset = offset_in_page(data);

@@ -2763,9 +2755,6 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *soc
 		offset = dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(proto), addr, NULL, len);
 		if (unlikely(offset < 0))
 			goto out_free;
-	} else {
-		if (ll_header_truncated(dev, len))
-			goto out_free;
 	}
 
 	/* Returns -EFAULT on error */

@@ -2773,6 +2762,12 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *soc
 	if (err)
 		goto out_free;
 
+	if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW &&
+	    !dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, len)) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_free;
+	}
+
 	sock_tx_timestamp(sk, &skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags);
 
 	if (!gso_type && (len > dev->mtu + reserve + extra_len) &&