netdev - Re: [PATCH] Re: skb_segment() questions

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:24:57 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	James Huang <jamesclhuang@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: skb_segment() questions

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:18:01AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>
> gso: Fix support for linear packets 2
> 
> The previous fix removed a check, which should be useful, only a bit
> later, by skipping at least two similar checks and three useless
> assignments in case a header is (still) copied.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
> ---
> 
>  net/core/skbuff.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index ce6356c..2123a92 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -2594,6 +2594,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *skb, int features)
>  
>  		skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(skb, offset,
>  						 skb_put(nskb, hsize), hsize);
> +		if (pos >= offset + len)
> +			continue;
>  
>  		while (pos < offset + len && i < nfrags) {
>  			*frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];

The common case (non-linear skb) is going to fail that check so 
I'm no sure if it's warranted.

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