packet: Allow packets with only a header (but no payload)

Commit 9c7077622d ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller
than l2 header") added validation for the packet size in packet_snd.
This change enforces that every packet needs a header (with at least
hard_header_len bytes) plus a payload with at least one byte. Before
this change the payload was optional.

This fixes PPPoE connections which do not have a "Service" or
"Host-Uniq" configured (which is violating the spec, but is still
widely used in real-world setups). Those are currently failing with the
following message: "pppd: packet size is too short (24 <= 24)"

Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Martin Blumenstingl
2015-11-22 17:46:09 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent c9da161c65
commit 880621c260
2 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -2329,8 +2329,8 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
static bool ll_header_truncated(const struct net_device *dev, int len)
{
/* net device doesn't like empty head */
if (unlikely(len <= dev->hard_header_len)) {
net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d <= %d)\n",
if (unlikely(len < dev->hard_header_len)) {
net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d < %d)\n",
current->comm, len, dev->hard_header_len);
return true;
}