netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v9] openvswitch: enable NSH support

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:09:07 +0800
From:   "Yang, Yi" <yi.y.yang@...el.com>
To:     Eric Garver <e@...g.me>
Cc:     "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jbenc@...hat.com" <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v9] openvswitch: enable NSH support

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:59:36AM +0800, Eric Garver wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:02:15PM +0800, Yang, Yi wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:28:42AM +0800, Eric Garver wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:16:09PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +	length = nsh_hdr_len(nsh_hdr);
> > > > +	skb_pull(skb, length);
> > > 
> > > Do you need to verify you can actually pull length bytes? I don't see
> > > any guarantee.
> > 
> > I have added skb length check in pop_nsh, so that can verify this.
> 
> That doesn't help other code that may call skb_pop_nsh(). skb_vlan_pop()
> calls skb_ensure_writable() which seems like the right thing to do.

Make sense, I will move it to skp_pop_nsh, thanks.