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authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>2014-07-11 08:45:27 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-11 15:02:10 -0700
commit999417549c16dd0e3a382aa9f6ae61688db03181 (patch)
treebc6c9abeee8bf65d9785cc9b867e39aab7754729 /net/tipc
parenta91d45f1a343188793d6f2bdf1a72c64015a8255 (diff)
downloadlinux-999417549c16dd0e3a382aa9f6ae61688db03181.tar.gz
tipc: clear 'next'-pointer of message fragments before reassembly
If the 'next' pointer of the last fragment buffer in a message is not
zeroed before reassembly, we risk ending up with a corrupt message,
since the reassembly function itself isn't doing this.

Currently, when a buffer is retrieved from the deferred queue of the
broadcast link, the next pointer is not cleared, with the result as
described above.

This commit corrects this, and thereby fixes a bug that may occur when
long broadcast messages are transmitted across dual interfaces. The bug
has been present since 40ba3cdf542a469aaa9083fa041656e59b109b90 ("tipc:
message reassembly using fragment chain")

This commit should be applied to both net and net-next.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/bcast.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/bcast.c b/net/tipc/bcast.c
index 26631679a1fa..55c6c9d3e1ce 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bcast.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bcast.c
@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ receive:
 
 		buf = node->bclink.deferred_head;
 		node->bclink.deferred_head = buf->next;
+		buf->next = NULL;
 		node->bclink.deferred_size--;
 		goto receive;
 	}