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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
seg6: set IPSKB_L3SLAVE from IP6SKB_L3SLAVE on IPIP decapsulation
When an SRv6 packet arrives on an interface enslaved to a VRF,
vrf_ip6_rcv() sets IP6SKB_L3SLAVE in IP6CB, but decap_and_validate()
has never set IPSKB_L3SLAVE in IPCB. The bit stayed clear in the
common case, and with CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6 the leftover frag_max_size of
a reassembled outer packet could even set it, with no VRF involved.
Commit 44930446dde4 ("ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP
decapsulation") then made the unreliable bit reliably clear.
The effect of the missing flag is visible with End.DX4 when a
delivery to a local address of the node reaches the socket lookup.
For example, a UDP socket bound to the enslaved ingress interface
does not receive any of the decapsulated packets, while an unbound
socket outside the VRF does.
This contradicts Documentation/networking/vrf.rst: by default the
scope of an unbound UDP or TCP socket is limited to the default VRF.
Set IPSKB_L3SLAVE for IPv4 in decap_and_validate(), which already does
the same for IPv6. The socket lookup then matches the decapsulated
packet like any other packet received on that enslaved interface. Such
a packet matches an unbound UDP or TCP socket only when
udp_l3mdev_accept or tcp_l3mdev_accept is set. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: mxl862xx: disable the stats poll on teardown
mxl862xx_setup() arms the stats poll before mxl862xx_setup_mdio(), and
nothing stops it until dsa_register_switch() has returned an error to
mxl862xx_probe(). DSA frees the dsa_port list before it returns, so a
poll that fires once .setup or a later step of dsa_tree_setup() has
failed walks freed ports. On shutdown the user ports stay registered,
and the WORK_STOPPED flag test in mxl862xx_get_stats64() is not atomic
with the cancel in mxl862xx_shutdown(), so a re-arm that read the flag
before it was set queues the poll after cancel_delayed_work_sync() has
returned.
Arm the poll once .setup has succeeded and stop it from a .teardown op,
which DSA calls on unregister and after a failed registration, in both
cases before it frees the ports. Use disable_delayed_work_sync() there
and in shutdown(): it drains a running poll as the cancel did and turns
every later attempt to queue the work into a no-op, so the re-arm
cannot bring the poll back. remove() and the probe error path only set
WORK_STOPPED, which crc_err_work tests before it walks the ports. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bcmgenet: restore the hardware filters on open
bcmgenet_hfb_init() runs INIT_LIST_HEAD() on priv->rxnfc_list, which drops
every rule off the list, and bcmgenet_open() calls it on each ifup. Every
rule the user configured is silently lost:
# ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ether dst $MAC action 0
Added rule with ID 0
# ethtool -n eth0 | grep -c Filter:
1
# ip link set eth0 down && ip link set eth0 up
# ethtool -n eth0 | grep -c Filter:
0
Initialise the lists once at probe and restore the rules on open, as
bcmgenet_resume() already does. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: icmp: reject RTN_UNREACHABLE input routes in icmp_route_lookup
When the forward output route cannot be used in icmp_route_lookup(),
it enters the "reverse path" and calls ip_route_input() on fl4_dec.daddr,
the original packet's source address.
ip_route_input() only returns an error for truly invalid packets. For
unreachable addresses it will succeed and return an input route whose
dst.output is set to ip_rt_bug(). The existing check only rejects
RTN_LOCAL routes, so the RTN_UNREACHABLE route types can still be returned
and later used for output, syzkaller triggering a WARN_ON_ONCE()
in ip_rt_bug() as bellow:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: net/ipv4/route.c:1273 at ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
ip_push_pending_frames+0xfa/0x100
__icmp_send+0x905/0xf10
ip_options_compile+0xc0/0xd0
ip_rcv_finish_core+0x321/0xae0
ip_rcv+0x1de/0x260
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x11a/0x130
netif_receive_skb+0x7b/0x260
tun_get_user+0x11bf/0x1c10
------------[ cut here ]------------
Reject input route that is RTN_UNREACHABLE to fix it. The net warning
is only printed for RTN_LOCAL, as RTN_UNREACHABLE is not the result of
a race condition. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down
skfp_ctl_set_mac_address() calls ResetAdapter() unconditionally, without
checking netif_running(). ResetAdapter() first calls card_stop(), which
sets smc->hw.hw_state to STOPPED, and then mac_drv_clear_tx_queue(),
which walks the two transmit queues:
for (i = QUEUE_S; i <= QUEUE_A0; i++) {
queue = smc->hw.fp.tx[i] ;
...
t = queue->tx_curr_get ;
smc->hw.fp.tx[] is only populated by init_tx(), which is reached from
skfp_open() through init_smt() -> init_fddi_driver() -> init_fplus() ->
init_mac() -> init_tx(). The private area is allocated and zeroed by
alloc_fddidev(), so on an interface that has never been brought up both
queue pointers are still NULL. The hw_state test at the top of
mac_drv_clear_tx_queue() does not catch this, because card_stop() has
just set STOPPED; the function proceeds into the loop and dereferences
NULL. ResetAdapter() does call init_smt() itself, but only after the
queues have been cleared.
Setting the MAC address on a down interface therefore oopses:
ip link set dev fddi0 address 02:00:00:00:00:01
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp]
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task ip/302
Call Trace:
<TASK>
mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
ResetAdapter+0x29/0x100 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
skfp_ctl_set_mac_address+0x57/0x80 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
netif_set_mac_address+0x1e4/0x2c0
do_setlink+0x684/0x2680
</TASK>
Address 0x10 is the offset of tx_curr_get, the third pointer in
struct s_smt_tx_queue, on 64-bit. mac_drv_clear_rx_queue(), which
ResetAdapter() calls immediately afterwards, dereferences
smc->hw.fp.rx[QUEUE_R1] in the same way behind the same ineffective
hw_state test; the transmit queue merely crashes first. Both are
covered by the guard below.
Skip the adapter reset when the interface is down. dev_addr_set() is
left unconditional, so the new address is still recorded in
dev->dev_addr. Nothing is lost by not resetting the adapter here:
skfp_open() deliberately re-reads the factory address on every open,
read_address(smc, NULL);
eth_hw_addr_set(dev, smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a);
and the comment above it states this is done to discard exactly such an
address override across a close/open cycle. An address set while the
interface is down could not have survived the following open even
before this change, so the guard removes no working behaviour. Guarding
the hardware side of ndo_set_mac_address() with netif_running() is
established practice; skge_set_mac_address() has done so since commit
2eb3e621c4e0 ("skge: set mac address bonding fix").
Guarding the reset as a whole, rather than NULL-checking the queues, is
also what the rest of the driver expects. After a previous open/close
the queue pointers are stale but non-NULL, so there is no crash, yet
ResetAdapter() goes on to call smt_online() and STI_FBI() ("Enable
Board Interrupts") while skfp_close() has already called free_irq() -
the adapter would be brought back online with no handler installed. The
only other ResetAdapter() caller is skfp_interrupt(), which by
construction runs only while the device is open.
Found by automated driver testing against an emulated SysKonnect FDDI
adapter under a KASAN-enabled 7.0.0 kernel. Triggering it requires
CAP_NET_ADMIN. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: mst: move switchdev call outside rcu
This is a follow-up of one of sashiko's pre-existing bug reports.
br_mst_set_state() calls switchdev_port_attr_set() for nonzero MSTIs
while holding rcu_read_lock() which invokes the blocking switchdev
notifier chain and may sleep. Nonzero MSTI changes come from netlink
with rtnl held. Move the switchdev call before entering the rcu section and
assert that rtnl is held.
The call cannot be deferred because netlink needs its error and extack.
Also DSA reads the old bridge MST state during the callback and checks it.
A deferred callback will be late and will see the updated state. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Don't call skb_clone_and_charge_r() for close()d listener in tcp_v6_do_rcv().
tcp_v6_do_rcv() no longer calls skb_clone_and_charge_r() for
TCP_LISTEN since commit 073d89808c06 ("net: fix data-races around
sk->sk_forward_alloc").
However, there is still a small race window between tcp_v6_rcv()
and tcp_v6_do_rcv(), where concurrent close() changes TCP_LISTEN
to TCP_CLOSE, causing skb_clone_and_charge_r() to be called
locklessly and resulting in the splat below. [0]
Let's avoid calling skb_clone_and_charge_r() for TCP_CLOSE as well.
This is fine for non-listeners because tcp_rcv_state_process()
drops skb for TCP_CLOSE and opt_skb was freed immediately anyway.
[0]:
sk->sk_forward_alloc
WARNING: net/ipv4/af_inet.c:162 at inet_sock_destruct+0x64d/0x810 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:162, CPU#1: ksoftirqd/1/28
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 28 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 7.2.0 #17 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:inet_sock_destruct+0x64d/0x810 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:162
Code: 3d 49 ff e9 06 fd ff ff e8 d0 5b 83 f8 90 0f 0b 90 e9 35 fe ff ff e8 c2 5b 83 f8 90 0f 0b 90 e9 c5 fe ff ff e8 b4 5b 83 f8 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 04 ff ff ff e8 a6 5b 83 f8 90 0f 0b 90 e9 65 fe ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000677bb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880117bde80 RCX: ffffffff8957eb41
RDX: ffff88801dad5d00 RSI: ffffffff8957ec3c RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00000000fffff000 R08: ffffffff8957eb41 R09: 00000000fffff000
R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8880117bdf10 R14: ffffffff81c08eb7 R15: 0000000000000003
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880d7ae5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f93a1021138 CR3: 00000000207a9000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__sk_destruct+0x82/0xae0 net/core/sock.c:2356
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2645 [inline]
rcu_core+0x59c/0x1100 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2897
handle_softirqs+0x1e4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:622
run_ksoftirqd kernel/softirq.c:1076 [inline]
run_ksoftirqd+0x38/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1068
smpboot_thread_fn+0x458/0xc80 kernel/smpboot.c:160
kthread+0x396/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x8e0/0xe40 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK> |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
We can hit a division by zero crash in tcp_rcvbuf_grow()
and tcp_rcv_space_adjust():
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
RIP: 0010:tcp_rcvbuf_grow+0x187/0x450 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:939
...
grow = div_u64(((u64)rcvwin << 1) * (newval - oldval), oldval);
The division uses oldval = tp->rcvq_space.space as divisor.
When tp->rcvq_space.space is zero, this leads to a divide-by-zero
exception.
tp->rcvq_space.space is initialized in tcp_init_buffer_space():
tp->rcvq_space.space = min3(tp->rcv_ssthresh, tp->rcv_wnd,
(u32)TCP_INIT_CWND * tp->advmss);
If tcp_rmem[1] is configured to very small values (such as 1),
sk->sk_rcvbuf is initialized to 1. Then tcp_full_space(sk), which
computes (sk->sk_rcvbuf * scaling_ratio) >> 8, truncates to 0.
This sets tp->window_clamp = 0, tp->rcv_ssthresh = 0, and
tp->rcvq_space.space = 0. Later, when data arrives and DRS is invoked,
tcp_rcvbuf_grow() divides by oldval == 0.
Back in 2015, commit b1cb59cf2efe ("net: sysctl_net_core: check SNDBUF
and RCVBUF for min length") ensured that net.core.rmem_default and
net.core.rmem_max cannot be set below SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF. Similarly,
SO_RCVBUF setsockopt enforces max_t(int, val * 2, SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF).
However, net.ipv4.tcp_rmem still had .extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE, allowing
arbitrarily small values.
Because SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF depends on sizeof(struct sk_buff) and cacheline
alignment, its value varies across architectures and configuration options.
Using a fixed constant of 4096 ensures a predictable, architecture-
independent lower bound that is safely above SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF everywhere
and matches the documented 4K default.
Fix this by setting tcp_rmem.extra1 to 4096 and updating the documentation. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: mmp_pdma: fix wrong sg length in mmp_pdma_prep_slave_sg()
In mmp_pdma_prep_slave_sg(), for_each_sg() iterates the scatterlist
putting each entry into 'sg', but the entry length is read from 'sgl'
(the list head) instead of 'sg' (the current entry):
for_each_sg(sgl, sg, sg_len, i) {
addr = sg_dma_address(sg);
avail = sg_dma_len(sgl); /* should be 'sg' */
Consequently 'avail' is always the length of the first entry. For
multi-sg lists this causes out-of-bounds reads when a later entry is
shorter than the first, and silent data loss when it is longer.
Single-sg or uniformly-sized lists happen to mask the issue. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix queuing tx_work after workqueue is drained
hci_send_acl(), hci_send_sco() and hci_send_iso() queue hdev->tx_work
unconditionally. They can run from the L2CAP/SCO/ISO socket send path
while hci_dev_close_sync() is draining hdev->workqueue (HCIDEVDOWN
racing with a socket write). Since that queue_work() is not chained
work from the tx_work worker itself, __queue_work() sees the queue
marked __WQ_DRAINING, warns "cannot queue %ps on wq %s", and drops
the work:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5985 at kernel/workqueue.c:2352 __queue_work
Call Trace:
queue_work_on
l2cap_chan_send
l2cap_sock_sendmsg
...
hci_dev_close_sync() already sets HCI_CMD_DRAIN_WORKQUEUE before
draining, but only hci_cmd_work() and handle_cmd_cnt_and_timer()
check it before queuing. Route the tx_work producers through the
same guard via a shared hci_sched_tx() helper. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: validate TX skb length in send_sync
btintel_pcie_prepare_tx() copies skb->len bytes into a fixed
BTINTEL_PCIE_BUFFER_SIZE (4096) DMA slot via an unchecked memcpy.
Oversized packets are currently rejected only in
btintel_pcie_send_frame(); any future caller of
btintel_pcie_send_sync() would silently overflow the DMA buffer.
Add the bounds check in btintel_pcie_send_sync() itself, right
before skb_push() and the DMA copy. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: coredump: Quiesce dump work on unregister
hci_devcd_handle_pkt_init() arms dump_timeout and coredump producers
queue dump_rx without holding an hdev reference. Unregister leaves both
works live, so disconnecting during an active dump lets them access hdev
after hci_release_dev() frees it.
Shut down coredump processing during unregister. Close the producer gate
under dump_q.lock before disabling both works, then free the active buffer
and queued packets under hci_dev_lock. Serializing the gate with enqueue
prevents controller-specific workers from adding packets after the final
purge. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_qca: Do not write to the serial port after it is closed
hci_uart_close() closes the serdev port if HCI_QUIRK_NON_PERSISTENT_SETUP
is set (for example, for the WCN399x family). A failed hci_dev_open_sync()
following a successful qca_setup() calls hdev->close() but not
hdev->shutdown(), so the port is closed while power->vregs_on is left true.
qca_serdev_remove() then passes its power->vregs_on test and calls
qca_power_off(), which writes to the closed port unconditionally.
Seen on a WCN3988 by unbinding the driver after a controller failure. The
trace below is from a 7.0.0 based kernel, where qca_power_off() was still
named qca_power_shutdown():
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000038
Call trace:
tty_set_termios+0x50/0x238 (P)
ttyport_set_baudrate+0x84/0xc0
serdev_device_set_baudrate+0x24/0x40
qca_power_shutdown+0x158/0x1fc [hci_uart]
qca_serdev_remove+0x54/0x68 [hci_uart]
serdev_drv_remove+0x1c/0x2c
device_remove+0x4c/0x80
device_release_driver_internal+0x1cc/0x224
device_driver_detach+0x18/0x24
unbind_store+0xb4/0xc0
Check HCI_UART_PROTO_READY, which hci_uart_close() clears in the same place
it closes the port, before writing to it. The regulator disable is left
unconditional so the controller is still powered down.
The dangling serport->tty that turns this into a use-after-free is
addressed in a separate patch. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: ISO: Fix parent socket leak in iso_conn_ready()
iso_get_sock() returns the parent socket with a reference held, which is
dropped by sock_put() once the child socket has been set up. The error
path taken when iso_sock_alloc() fails only calls release_sock() and
returns, leaking the reference and thus the parent socket itself.
Drop the reference on that path as well. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btmtksdio, btmtkuart: validate WMT event length before struct access
btmtksdio.c and btmtkuart.c cast a received WMT event straight to
struct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt and read its op/flag fields without checking
the event is long enough to contain them, unlike btmtk.c. The
FUNC_CTRL case then further casts to struct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt_funcc
and reads its 2-byte status field, again without a length check.
Firmware that sends a short or malformed WMT event makes both drivers
read past the end of the received SKB.
Mirror btmtk.c: validate the base WMT header with skb_pull_data()
before touching any of its fields, and when a FUNC_CTRL event turns
out to be the short, header-only form (a plain enable/disable ack
with no status word), decode the result from the header's own flag
byte instead (0 = success, otherwise failure).
Verified setup on MT7920, MT7921, MT7922 and MT7925: no regression. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: fix off-by-one bounds check in RX submit
btintel_pcie_submit_rx() used frbd_index > rxq->count to guard the
FRBD array access, allowing frbd_index == rxq->count to pass through
and index one element past the end of the array. Change the check to
>= rxq->count so every out-of-range index is rejected.
This issue was reported by Claude Mythos. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup
rfcomm_sock_cleanup_listen() closes unaccepted child sockets through
rfcomm_sock_close(), which takes the child socket lock before
rfcomm_dlc_close() acquires rfcomm_mutex. The RFCOMM worker takes these
locks in reverse order while handling connections and DLC state changes,
so lockdep reports a possible deadlock.
Close dequeued children without taking their socket lock. The accept queue
owns a reference to each child, and bt_accept_dequeue() locks the child
while unlinking it and clearing its parent pointer.
Dropping the child lock makes it important to prevent a concurrent
rfcomm_connect_ind() from enqueueing a new child after cleanup observes an
empty queue. Set a listening socket to BT_CLOSED while its lock is still
held, before dropping the lock and draining the queue. The state check in
rfcomm_connect_ind() then rejects new children once cleanup starts. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Unify scc_index when finalising SCC in __unix_walk_scc().
Commit bfdb01283ee8 ("af_unix: Assign a unique index to SCC.")
changed Tarjan's algorithm to update lowlink with lowlink,
which is called lowpoint (unix_vertex.scc_index).
unix_vertex_dead() assumes all vertices in an SCC share the same
lowpoint, but this is not always true if an SCC has two or more
back edges, depending on the order of DFS.
For example, the graph below has two back edges from B to A
and from C to B.
A --> B --> C
^ | ^ |
`----' `----'
If DFS walks through A -> B -> C -> B (-> C -> B) -> A (-> B -> A),
each index and scc_index will be updated as follows.
A --> B --> C C = (3, 3) (index, scc_index)
B = (2, 2)
A = (1, 1)
A ... B ... C C = (3, 2)<-.
^ | B = (2, 2) -'
`----' A = (1, 1)
A ... B ... C C = (3, 2)
^ | . . B = (2, 1)<-.
`----' .... A = (1, 1) -'
Then, unix_vertex_dead() thinks that B is passed to another
SCC with scc_index 2, and the SCC is not garbage-collected.
This does not happen if DFS walks in a different order below
or starts from B.
1 3
A --> B --> C
^ | ^ |
`----' `----'
2 4
Let's unify scc_index across the SCC when finalising it.
Note that updating v->index was previously done in unix_scc_dead(),
when called from __unix_walk_scc(), just to save one loop. Since
__unix_walk_scc() now iterates over the SCC anyway, the update is
moved back to __unix_walk_scc() and 'fast' argument is dropped. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: stmmac: fix TSO header length truncation
stmmac_tso_xmit() stores the protocol header length returned by
stmmac_tso_header_size() in a u8. stmmac_tso_valid_packet() admits
headers up to 1023 bytes, so a header longer than 255 bytes wraps modulo
256 (486 becomes 230, 256 becomes 0).
A TCP over IPv6 socket carrying a few hundred bytes of sticky
destination/hop-by-hop options makes skb_tcp_all_headers() exceed 255
while staying below the 1023-byte limit, so such an skb reaches
stmmac_tso_xmit().
Widen proto_hdr_len to unsigned int, which is sufficient since the value
is bounded by the hardware limit, and adjust the debug print specifier
accordingly. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pppoatm: ensure a writable skb header and linear data
In pppoatm_send(), LLC encapsulation checks whether there is sufficient
headroom for the 4-byte LLC header, but does not ensure that the skb header
is writable.
Normal transmit packets passing through ppp_start_xmit() have their header
unshared via skb_cow_head(). However, packets can also reach pppoatm_send()
via PPP channel bridging (PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN) without going through
ppp_start_xmit().
Use skb_cow_head() to ensure both sufficient headroom and a writable
header before pushing the LLC header.
While at it:
- Call pskb_may_pull(skb, 1) before inspecting skb->data[0] to prevent
out-of-bounds reads on zero-length or non-linear frames (e.g. from
bridging).
- Defer SC_COMP_PROT protocol compression until after pppoatm_may_send()
succeeds. This eliminates the temporary skb allocation on admission failure
and completely removes the fragile "undo" heuristic at the nospace label,
avoiding any risk of reading uninitialized headroom or performing an
unbalanced skb_push(). |