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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-09-16 16:21:42 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2007-09-16 16:21:42 -0700 |
| commit | 7b797d5b150775d717cb03b5ada28b8bad99afab (patch) | |
| tree | 086b28889711612bcb2ea80c30e85116f617c0f7 /drivers | |
| parent | d9cc20484e5e48c6a5deb4387c20fd45bfbdde8c (diff) | |
[PPP] generic: Call skb_cow_head before scribbling over skb
It's rude to write over data that other people are still using. So call
skb_cow_head before PPP proceeds to modify the skb data.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c index 9293c82ef2af..7e21342becb2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c @@ -899,17 +899,9 @@ ppp_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) /* Put the 2-byte PPP protocol number on the front, making sure there is room for the address and control fields. */ - if (skb_headroom(skb) < PPP_HDRLEN) { - struct sk_buff *ns; - - ns = alloc_skb(skb->len + dev->hard_header_len, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (ns == 0) - goto outf; - skb_reserve(ns, dev->hard_header_len); - skb_copy_bits(skb, 0, skb_put(ns, skb->len), skb->len); - kfree_skb(skb); - skb = ns; - } + if (skb_cow_head(skb, PPP_HDRLEN)) + goto outf; + pp = skb_push(skb, 2); proto = npindex_to_proto[npi]; pp[0] = proto >> 8; |