netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: change skb->mac_header when Generic XDP calls adjust

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Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: change skb->mac_header when Generic XDP calls
 adjust_head

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:45:56 +0100

> Since XDP's view of the packet includes the MAC header, moving the start-
>  of-packet with bpf_xdp_adjust_head needs to also update the offset of the
>  MAC header (which is relative to skb->head, not to the skb->data that was
>  changed).
> Without this, tcpdump sees packets starting from the old MAC header rather
>  than the new one, at least in my tests on the loopback device.
> 
> Fixes: b5cdae3291f7 ("net: Generic XDP")
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Edward.