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    net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read(). · 71b3346d
    Shyam Iyer authored
    
    
    It oopsd for me in skb_seq_read. addr2line said it was
    linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c:2228, which is this line:
    
    
    	while (st->frag_idx < skb_shinfo(st->cur_skb)->nr_frags) {
    
    
    I added some printks in there and it looks like we hit this:
    
            } else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb &&
                       skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) {
                     st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list;
                     st->frag_idx = 0;
                     goto next_skb;
            }
    
    
    
    Actually I did some testing and added a few printks and found that the
    st->cur_skb->data was 0 and hence the ptr used by iscsi_tcp was null.
    This caused the kernel panic.
    
     	if (abs_offset < block_limit) {
    -		*data = st->cur_skb->data + abs_offset;
    +		*data = st->cur_skb->data + (abs_offset - st->stepped_offset);
    
    I enabled the debug_tcp and with a few printks found that the code did
    not go to the next_skb label and could find that the sequence being
    followed was this -
    
    It hit this if condition -
    
            if (st->cur_skb->next) {
                    st->cur_skb = st->cur_skb->next;
                    st->frag_idx = 0;
                    goto next_skb;
    
    And so, now the st pointer is shifted to the next skb whereas actually
    it should have hit the second else if first since the data is in the
    frag_list.
    
            else if (st->root_skb == st->cur_skb &&
                     skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list) {
                    st->cur_skb = skb_shinfo(st->root_skb)->frag_list;
                    goto next_skb;
            }
    
    Reversing the two conditions the attached patch fixes the issue for me
    on top of Herbert's patches. 
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShyam Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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