netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] net: minor gso encapsulation fixes

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:04:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fw@...len.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] net: minor gso encapsulation fixes

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:49:15 +0200

> The following series fixes a minor bug in the gso segmentation handlers
> when encapsulation offload is used.
> 
> Theoretically this could cause kernel panic when the stack tries
> to software-segment such a GRE offload packet, but it looks like there
> is only one affected call site (tbf scheduler) and it handles NULL
> return value.
> 
> I've included a followup patch to add IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks where needed.
> 
> While looking into this, I also found that size computation of the individual
> segments is incorrect if skb->encapsulation is set.
> 
> Please see individual patches for delta vs. v1.

Series applied, thanks Florian.

Longer term I'd really like to see the ops->gso_segment() implementations not
return NULL, but rather locally determinned pointer error codes instead.
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