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    6lowpan: iphc: reset mac_header after decompress to fix panic · 03bc05e1
    Michael Scott authored
    After decompression of 6lowpan socket data, an IPv6 header is inserted
    before the existing socket payload.  After this, we reset the
    network_header value of the skb to account for the difference in payload
    size from prior to decompression + the addition of the IPv6 header.
    
    However, we fail to reset the mac_header value.
    
    Leaving the mac_header value untouched here, can cause a calculation
    error in net/packet/af_packet.c packet_rcv() function when an
    AF_PACKET socket is opened in SOCK_RAW mode for use on a 6lowpan
    interface.
    
    On line 2088, the data pointer is moved backward by the value returned
    from skb_mac_header().  If skb->data is adjusted so that it is before
    the skb->head pointer (which can happen when an old value of mac_header
    is left in place) the kernel generates a panic in net/core/skbuff.c
    line 1717.
    
    This panic can be generated by BLE 6lowpan interfaces (such as bt0) and
    802.15.4 interfaces (such as lowpan0) as they both use the sa...
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