netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Validate frames going through the direct

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Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:23:40 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Validate frames going through the direct_xmit path

On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 19:46 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> Actually it looks like there are several issues.  One is the bypass
> problem which is the major issue. Another side effect of the original
> patch is that a bad frame will cause us to exit __qdisc_run prematurely
> even if other frames are still in the qdisc.

Hmm... maybe a the following would fix that ?

Also note we lack counters tracking these kind of events (dropped count)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 5b261e91bdbd..e051fdf95783 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -71,9 +71,13 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *dequeue_skb(struct Qdisc *q)
 			skb = NULL;
 	} else {
 		if (!(q->flags & TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE) || !netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped(txq)) {
+dequeue:
 			skb = q->dequeue(q);
-			if (skb)
+			if (skb) {
 				skb = validate_xmit_skb(skb, qdisc_dev(q));
+				if (!skb)
+					goto dequeue;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 


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