tree 917fe7b0dcabc632616371adae06a06ac550ae2d
parent 7cf210dc267861360cf6968b69bf512475aca985
author Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com> 1470203097 +1000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1470456371 -0400

OVS: Ignore negative headroom value

net_device->ndo_set_rx_headroom (introduced in
871b642adebe300be2e50aa5f65a418510f636ec) says

  "Setting a negtaive value reset the rx headroom
   to the default value".

It seems that the OVS implementation in
3a927bc7cf9d0fbe8f4a8189dd5f8440228f64e7 overlooked this and sets
dev->needed_headroom unconditionally.

This doesn't have an immediate effect, but can mess up later
LL_RESERVED_SPACE calculations, such as done in
net/ipv6/mcast.c:mld_newpack.  For reference, this issue was found
from a skb_panic raised there after the length calculations had given
the wrong result.

Note the other current users of this interface
(drivers/net/tun.c:tun_set_headroom and
drivers/net/veth.c:veth_set_rx_headroom) are both checking this
correctly thus need no modification.

Thanks to Ben for some pointers from the crash dumps!

Cc: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361414
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>