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authorCraig Brind <craigbrind@gmail.com>2006-04-27 02:30:46 -0700
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-05-02 15:21:52 -0400
commit3e0d167a6b6e5722d7fadfad9b817f668ab41ec1 (patch)
tree94db08e05f3de8f2f959ebf01ad2c04a37642e64 /drivers/sh
parentb0b8dab288590ede2377a671db0a31380f454541 (diff)
[PATCH] via-rhine: zero pad short packets on Rhine I ethernet cards
Fixes Rhine I cards disclosing fragments of previously transmitted frames in new transmissions. Before transmission, any socket buffer (skb) shorter than the ethernet minimum length of 60 bytes was zero-padded. On Rhine I cards the data can later be copied into an aligned transmission buffer without copying this padding. This resulted in the transmission of the frame with the extra bytes beyond the provided content leaking the previous contents of this buffer on to the network. Now zero-padding is repeated in the local aligned buffer if one is used. Following a suggestion from the via-rhine maintainer, no attempt is made here to avoid the duplicated effort of padding the skb if it is known that an aligned buffer will definitely be used. This is to make the change "obviously correct" and allow it to be applied to a stable kernel if necessary. There is no change to the flow of control and the changes are only to the Rhine I code path. The patch has run on an in-service Rhine-I host without incident. Frames shorter than 60 bytes are now correctly zero-padded when captured on a separate host. I see no unusual stats reported by ifconfig, and no unusual log messages. Signed-off-by: Craig Brind <craigbrind@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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