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Xie He authored
When sending a packet, we will prepend it with an LAPB header. This modifies the shared parts of a cloned skb, so we should copy the skb rather than just clone it, before we prepend the header. In "Documentation/networking/driver.rst" (the 2nd point), it states that drivers shouldn't modify the shared parts of a cloned skb when transmitting. The "dev_queue_xmit_nit" function in "net/core/dev.c", which is called when an skb is being sent, clones the skb and sents the clone to AF_PACKET sockets. Because the LAPB drivers first remove a 1-byte pseudo-header before handing over the skb to us, if we don't copy the skb before prepending the LAPB header, the first byte of the packets received on AF_PACKET sockets can be corrupted. Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210201055706.415842-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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