netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ipv4: push IP options to CB in ip

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Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:13:29 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Bandan Das <bandan.das@...atus.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ipv4: push IP options to CB in
 ip_fragment

Le mardi 31 août 2010 à 20:36 +0800, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:17:51AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > Once again, the IP stack -> bridge -> IP stack flow bites us,
> > because bridge likes to dirty IPCB.
> 
> OK, so we're talking about a locally transmitted packet, with
> IP options leaving the IP stack, entering bridging, and then
> reentering the IP stack?
> 
> In that case the packet should no longer be treated as an IP
> packet when it enters the bridge.  So if it did have options
> and we want to support that in bridging then we need to parse
> IP options there as my comment suggested.

Bandan did not provide a full stack trace,
but I believe the problem was :

br_nf_dev_queue_xmit() -> ip_fragment -> icmp_send() ->
ip_options_echo() : crash, because ip_options_echo take bridge CB as
IPCB data.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139370.html




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