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authorJames Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>2017-04-24 12:40:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-14 13:32:57 +0200
commit0d89c7a27b1a13cc62c4c0a2869e8812252f92c1 (patch)
treecd8e96315fe1b753f7d00dafb016722679470f84 /drivers/net
parent0112db0b9a7779aa83f14ec30c8262aca2e84166 (diff)
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 <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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);