netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "ipv6: Initial skb->dev and skb->protocol in ip6

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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 07:55:47 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Chenbo Feng <chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "ipv6: Initial skb->dev and
 skb->protocol in ip6_output"

On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 12:56 -0700, Chenbo Feng wrote:
> From: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> 
> This reverts commit 97a7a37a7b7b("ipv6: Initial skb->dev and
> skb->protocol in ip6_output") since it does not handles the
> skb->dev assignment inside ip6_fragment() code path properly.
> Need to rework and upload again

We can avoid the revert I believe the patch is fine after analysis.

Please submit this followup, thanks ! :

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 02cd44f0953900108701895108b2fdaa9f9980e5..0d6f3b6345de26c329ae1d6f25dde652a5452d4b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -869,7 +869,6 @@ int ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (skb->sk && dst_allfrag(skb_dst(skb)))
 		sk_nocaps_add(skb->sk, NETIF_F_GSO_MASK);
 
-	skb->dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev;
 	icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG, 0, mtu);
 	err = -EMSGSIZE;