Patch "packet: infer protocol from ethernet header if unset" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    packet: infer protocol from ethernet header if unset

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From foo@baz Fri Dec 11 11:39:46 EST 2015

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:25:43 +0100
Subject: packet: infer protocol from ethernet header if unset

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

[ Upstream commit c72219b75fde768efccf7666342282fab7f9e4e7 ]

In case no struct sockaddr_ll has been passed to packet
socket's sendmsg() when doing a TX_RING flush run, then
skb->protocol is set to po->num instead, which is the protocol
passed via socket(2)/bind(2).

Applications only xmitting can go the path of allocating the
socket as socket(PF_PACKET, <mode>, 0) and do a bind(2) on the
TX_RING with sll_protocol of 0. That way, register_prot_hook()
is neither called on creation nor on bind time, which saves
cycles when there's no interest in capturing anyway.

That leaves us however with po->num 0 instead and therefore
the TX_RING flush run sets skb->protocol to 0 as well. Eric
reported that this leads to problems when using tools like
trafgen over bonding device. I.e. the bonding's hash function
could invoke the kernel's flow dissector, which depends on
skb->protocol being properly set. In the current situation, all
the traffic is then directed to a single slave.

Fix it up by inferring skb->protocol from the Ethernet header
when not set and we have ARPHRD_ETHER device type. This is only
done in case of SOCK_RAW and where we have a dev->hard_header_len
length. In case of ARPHRD_ETHER devices, this is guaranteed to
cover ETH_HLEN, and therefore being accessed on the skb after
the skb_store_bits().

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c

@@ -2091,6 +2091,15 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct
 	sock_wfree(skb);
 }
 
+static void tpacket_set_protocol(const struct net_device *dev,
+				 struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) {
+		skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
+		skb->protocol = eth_hdr(skb)->h_proto;
+	}
+}
+
 static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		void *frame, struct net_device *dev, int size_max,
 		__be16 proto, unsigned char *addr, int hlen)

@@ -2176,6 +2185,8 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packe
 				dev->hard_header_len);
 		if (unlikely(err))
 			return err;
+		if (!skb->protocol)
+			tpacket_set_protocol(dev, skb);
 
 		data += dev->hard_header_len;
 		to_write -= dev->hard_header_len;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@iogearbox.net are

queue-3.14/packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch
queue-3.14/ipv6-sctp-implement-sctp_v6_destroy_sock.patch
queue-3.14/net-scm-fix-pax-detected-msg_controllen-overflow-in-scm_detach_fds.patch
queue-3.14/packet-always-probe-for-transport-header.patch
queue-3.14/packet-do-skb_probe_transport_header-when-we-actually-have-data.patch
queue-3.14/tools-net-use-include-uapi-with-__exported_headers__.patch