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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
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<title>usbnet: gl620a: fix out-of-bounds read in genelink_rx_fixup()</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:20:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiang Mei</name>
<email>xmei5@asu.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-27T20:53:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8ff7f2a6da4fccaa5cc9be7251a24e71e29fbd1a ]

genelink_rx_fixup() splits an aggregated RX frame into its individual
packets, using a per-packet length taken from device-supplied data. That
length is only bounded by GL_MAX_PACKET_LEN (1514); it is never compared
against how many bytes were actually received.

A malicious GeneLink (GL620A) device can therefore send a short URB whose
header claims packet_count &gt; 1 and a first packet of up to 1514 bytes.

	skb_put_data(gl_skb, packet-&gt;packet_data, size);

then copies past the end of the receive buffer and hands the adjacent slab
contents up the network stack, an out-of-bounds read that leaks kernel heap.
No privilege is required: the path runs in the usbnet RX softirq as soon as
the interface is up.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in genelink_rx_fixup (drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)
  Read of size 1514 at addr ffff888011309708 by task ksoftirqd/0/14
  Call Trace:
    ...
    __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)
    genelink_rx_fixup (include/linux/skbuff.h:2814 drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)
    usbnet_bh (drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:572 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1589)
    process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)
    bh_worker (kernel/workqueue.c:3405)
    tasklet_action (kernel/softirq.c:965)
    handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
    run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1076)
    ...

skb_pull() already verifies that the requested length fits the buffer and
returns NULL otherwise. Move it ahead of the copy and check its result, so
a packet that overruns the received data is rejected before it is read.
Well-formed frames, whose packets are fully present, are unaffected.

Fixes: 47ee3051c856 ("[PATCH] USB: usbnet (5/9) module for genesys gl620a cables")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi &lt;bestswngs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260627205353.4000788-1-xmei5@asu.edu
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8ff7f2a6da4fccaa5cc9be7251a24e71e29fbd1a ]

genelink_rx_fixup() splits an aggregated RX frame into its individual
packets, using a per-packet length taken from device-supplied data. That
length is only bounded by GL_MAX_PACKET_LEN (1514); it is never compared
against how many bytes were actually received.

A malicious GeneLink (GL620A) device can therefore send a short URB whose
header claims packet_count &gt; 1 and a first packet of up to 1514 bytes.

	skb_put_data(gl_skb, packet-&gt;packet_data, size);

then copies past the end of the receive buffer and hands the adjacent slab
contents up the network stack, an out-of-bounds read that leaks kernel heap.
No privilege is required: the path runs in the usbnet RX softirq as soon as
the interface is up.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in genelink_rx_fixup (drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)
  Read of size 1514 at addr ffff888011309708 by task ksoftirqd/0/14
  Call Trace:
    ...
    __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)
    genelink_rx_fixup (include/linux/skbuff.h:2814 drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)
    usbnet_bh (drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:572 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1589)
    process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)
    bh_worker (kernel/workqueue.c:3405)
    tasklet_action (kernel/softirq.c:965)
    handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
    run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1076)
    ...

skb_pull() already verifies that the requested length fits the buffer and
returns NULL otherwise. Move it ahead of the copy and check its result, so
a packet that overruns the received data is rejected before it is read.
Well-formed frames, whose packets are fully present, are unaffected.

Fixes: 47ee3051c856 ("[PATCH] USB: usbnet (5/9) module for genesys gl620a cables")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi &lt;bestswngs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260627205353.4000788-1-xmei5@asu.edu
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>usbnet: gl620a: fix endpoint checking in genelink_bind()</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T10:35:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikita Zhandarovich</name>
<email>n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T17:29:17+00:00</published>
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Syzbot reports [1] a warning in usb_submit_urb() triggered by
inconsistencies between expected and actually present endpoints
in gl620a driver. Since genelink_bind() does not properly
verify whether specified eps are in fact provided by the device,
in this case, an artificially manufactured one, one may get a
mismatch.

Fix the issue by resorting to a usbnet utility function
usbnet_get_endpoints(), usually reserved for this very problem.
Check for endpoints and return early before proceeding further if
any are missing.

[1] Syzbot report:
usb 5-1: Manufacturer: syz
usb 5-1: SerialNumber: syz
usb 5-1: config 0 descriptor??
gl620a 5-1:0.23 usb0: register 'gl620a' at usb-dummy_hcd.0-1, ...
------------[ cut here ]------------
usb 5-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1841 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503 usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1841 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-07834-g06afb0f36106 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
...
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 usbnet_start_xmit+0x6be/0x2780 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1467
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5002 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5011 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3606
 sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3827 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4400
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output net/core/neighbour.c:1514 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output+0x5bc/0x950 net/core/neighbour.c:1494
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:539 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output2+0xb1b/0x2070 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141
 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:215 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output+0x3f9/0x1360 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:226
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:303 [inline]
 ip6_output+0x1f8/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:450 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:308 [inline]
 mld_sendpack+0x9f0/0x11d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1819
 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2120 [inline]
 mld_ifc_work+0x740/0xca0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2651
 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1ba0 kernel/workqueue.c:3229
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3310 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf00 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzbot+d693c07c6f647e0388d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d693c07c6f647e0388d3
Fixes: 47ee3051c856 ("[PATCH] USB: usbnet (5/9) module for genesys gl620a cables")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich &lt;n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250224172919.1220522-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Syzbot reports [1] a warning in usb_submit_urb() triggered by
inconsistencies between expected and actually present endpoints
in gl620a driver. Since genelink_bind() does not properly
verify whether specified eps are in fact provided by the device,
in this case, an artificially manufactured one, one may get a
mismatch.

Fix the issue by resorting to a usbnet utility function
usbnet_get_endpoints(), usually reserved for this very problem.
Check for endpoints and return early before proceeding further if
any are missing.

[1] Syzbot report:
usb 5-1: Manufacturer: syz
usb 5-1: SerialNumber: syz
usb 5-1: config 0 descriptor??
gl620a 5-1:0.23 usb0: register 'gl620a' at usb-dummy_hcd.0-1, ...
------------[ cut here ]------------
usb 5-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1841 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503 usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1841 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-07834-g06afb0f36106 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
...
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 usbnet_start_xmit+0x6be/0x2780 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1467
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5002 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5011 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3606
 sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3827 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4400
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output net/core/neighbour.c:1514 [inline]
 neigh_resolve_output+0x5bc/0x950 net/core/neighbour.c:1494
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:539 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output2+0xb1b/0x2070 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141
 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:215 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output+0x3f9/0x1360 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:226
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:303 [inline]
 ip6_output+0x1f8/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:450 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:308 [inline]
 mld_sendpack+0x9f0/0x11d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1819
 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2120 [inline]
 mld_ifc_work+0x740/0xca0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2651
 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1ba0 kernel/workqueue.c:3229
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3310 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf00 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzbot+d693c07c6f647e0388d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d693c07c6f647e0388d3
Fixes: 47ee3051c856 ("[PATCH] USB: usbnet (5/9) module for genesys gl620a cables")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich &lt;n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250224172919.1220522-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T01:00:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-21T17:34:15+00:00</published>
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There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
on memcpy().

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
manually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220221173415.GA1149599@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
on memcpy().

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
manually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220221173415.GA1149599@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T09:28:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T13:51:43+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy &lt;opensource@jilayne.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy &lt;opensource@jilayne.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: introduce and use skb_put_data()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:20+00:00</published>
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A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>usbnet: remove generic hard_header_len check</title>
<updated>2014-02-17T19:35:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Goode</name>
<email>emilgoode@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-13T16:50:19+00:00</published>
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This patch removes a generic hard_header_len check from the usbnet
module that is causing dropped packages under certain circumstances
for devices that send rx packets that cross urb boundaries.

One example is the AX88772B which occasionally send rx packets that
cross urb boundaries where the remaining partial packet is sent with
no hardware header. When the buffer with a partial packet is of less
number of octets than the value of hard_header_len the buffer is
discarded by the usbnet module.

With AX88772B this can be reproduced by using ping with a packet
size between 1965-1976.

The bug has been reported here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29082

This patch introduces the following changes:
- Removes the generic hard_header_len check in the rx_complete
  function in the usbnet module.
- Introduces a ETH_HLEN check for skbs that are not cloned from
  within a rx_fixup callback.
- For safety a hard_header_len check is added to each rx_fixup
  callback function that could be affected by this change.
  These extra checks could possibly be removed by someone
  who has the hardware to test.
- Removes a call to dev_kfree_skb_any() and instead utilizes the
  dev-&gt;done list to queue skbs for cleanup.

The changes place full responsibility on the rx_fixup callback
functions that clone skbs to only pass valid skbs to the
usbnet_skb_return function.

Signed-off-by: Emil Goode &lt;emilgoode@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Igor Gnatenko &lt;i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
This patch removes a generic hard_header_len check from the usbnet
module that is causing dropped packages under certain circumstances
for devices that send rx packets that cross urb boundaries.

One example is the AX88772B which occasionally send rx packets that
cross urb boundaries where the remaining partial packet is sent with
no hardware header. When the buffer with a partial packet is of less
number of octets than the value of hard_header_len the buffer is
discarded by the usbnet module.

With AX88772B this can be reproduced by using ping with a packet
size between 1965-1976.

The bug has been reported here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29082

This patch introduces the following changes:
- Removes the generic hard_header_len check in the rx_complete
  function in the usbnet module.
- Introduces a ETH_HLEN check for skbs that are not cloned from
  within a rx_fixup callback.
- For safety a hard_header_len check is added to each rx_fixup
  callback function that could be affected by this change.
  These extra checks could possibly be removed by someone
  who has the hardware to test.
- Removes a call to dev_kfree_skb_any() and instead utilizes the
  dev-&gt;done list to queue skbs for cleanup.

The changes place full responsibility on the rx_fixup callback
functions that clone skbs to only pass valid skbs to the
usbnet_skb_return function.

Signed-off-by: Emil Goode &lt;emilgoode@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Igor Gnatenko &lt;i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net: delete non-required instances of include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2014-01-16T19:53:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-08T20:32:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a81ab36bf52d0ca3a32251a923be1dbced726141'/>
<id>a81ab36bf52d0ca3a32251a923be1dbced726141</id>
<content type='text'>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.   Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

This covers everything under drivers/net except for wireless, which
has been submitted separately.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.   Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

This covers everything under drivers/net except for wireless, which
has been submitted separately.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>usb: Fix FSF address in file headers</title>
<updated>2013-12-06T17:37:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Kirsher</name>
<email>jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-06T14:28:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9cb00073d754249604f735a79734fa58df92a456'/>
<id>9cb00073d754249604f735a79734fa58df92a456</id>
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Oliver Neukum &lt;oliver@neukum.org&gt;
CC: Steve Glendinning &lt;steve.glendinning@shawell.net&gt;
CC: Oliver Neukum &lt;oneukum@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Oliver Neukum &lt;oliver@neukum.org&gt;
CC: Steve Glendinning &lt;steve.glendinning@shawell.net&gt;
CC: Oliver Neukum &lt;oneukum@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: remove dbg() usage in USB networking drivers</title>
<updated>2012-09-20T21:53:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-19T09:46:14+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The dbg() USB macro is so old, it predates me.  The USB networking drivers are
the last hold-out using this macro, and we want to get rid of it, so replace
the usage of it with the proper netdev_dbg() or dev_dbg() (depending on the
context) calls.

Some places we end up using a local variable for the debug call, so also
convert the other existing dev_* calls to use it as well, to save tiny amounts
of code space.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The dbg() USB macro is so old, it predates me.  The USB networking drivers are
the last hold-out using this macro, and we want to get rid of it, so replace
the usage of it with the proper netdev_dbg() or dev_dbg() (depending on the
context) calls.

Some places we end up using a local variable for the debug call, so also
convert the other existing dev_* calls to use it as well, to save tiny amounts
of code space.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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