netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ipoib: fix GRO merge failure for IPoIB originated TCP streams

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Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:23:22 +0200
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@...lanox.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ipoib: fix GRO merge failure for IPoIB originated
 TCP streams

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:

>> If this is an attack, TCP will merge the frames anyway on the same socket.

> Not if we have a MAC-level filter in place or VLANs.

Herbert, Eric

So what would you recommend here? not sure if you saw that, but Shlomo
suggested to add new entry to the header ops, compare_header e.g such
that if skb->dev has this callback use it instead of
compare_ether_header in __napi_gro_receive, makes sense?

Or.
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