netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: fix poll()

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:18:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: fix poll()

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:19:51 +0200

> Michael reported an UDP breakage caused by the commit b65ac44674dd
> ("udp: try to avoid 2 cache miss on dequeue").
> The function __first_packet_length() can update the checksum bits
> of the pending skb, making the scratched area out-of-sync, and
> setting skb->csum, if the skb was previously in need of checksum
> validation.
> 
> On later recvmsg() for such skb, checksum validation will be
> invoked again - due to the wrong udp_skb_csum_unnecessary()
> value - and will fail, causing the valid skb to be dropped.
> 
> This change addresses the issue refreshing the scratch area in
> __first_packet_length() after the possible checksum update.
> 
> Fixes: b65ac44674dd ("udp: try to avoid 2 cache miss on dequeue")
> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Thanks for fixing this so quickly, applied.