netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: fix UDP tunnel GSO of frag

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:45:27 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: fix UDP tunnel GSO of frag_list GRO packets

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@...mgrid.com>
> Date: Sun,  8 Jun 2014 23:48:54 -0700
>
>> This patch fixes a kernel BUG_ON in skb_segment. It is hit when
>> testing two VMs on openvswitch with one VM acting as VXLAN gateway.
>>
>> During VXLAN packet GSO, skb_segment is called with skb->data
>> pointing to inner TCP payload. skb_segment calls skb_network_protocol
>> to retrieve the inner protocol. skb_network_protocol actually expects
>> skb->data to point to MAC and it calls pskb_may_pull with ETH_HLEN.
>> This ends up pulling in ETH_HLEN data from header tail. As a result,
>> pskb_trim logic is skipped and BUG_ON is hit later.
>>
>> Move skb_push in front of skb_network_protocol so that skb->data
>> lines up properly.
>  ...
>> Signed-off-by: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@...mgrid.com>
>
> Applied, thank you.

Hi Wei-Chun,

So how long the bug exists? was it introduced 3.15-rc cycle or
earlier? I guess it needs to go into -stable  too, right?

Or.
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