netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: sctp gso should set feature with NETIF_F_SG when calling skb

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:29:04 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: sctp gso should set feature with NETIF_F_SG
 when calling skb_segment

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:05:16 +0800

> Now sctp gso puts segments into skb's frag_list, then processes these
> segments in skb_segment. But skb_segment handles them only when gs is
> enabled, as it's in the same branch with skb's frags.
> 
> Although almost all the NICs support sg other than some old ones, but
> since commit 1e16aa3ddf86 ("net: gso: use feature flag argument in all
> protocol gso handlers"), features &= skb->dev->hw_enc_features, and
> xfrm_output_gso call skb_segment with features = 0, which means sctp
> gso would call skb_segment with sg = 0, and skb_segment would not work
> as expected.
> 
> This patch is to fix it by setting features param with NETIF_F_SG when
> calling skb_segment so that it can go the right branch to process the
> skb's frag_list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.