netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v2 2/8] udp: Verify that pulling UDP header in GSO segmentation doesn't fail

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Date:   Sat, 5 May 2018 10:12:15 +0200
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 2/8] udp: Verify that pulling UDP header in
 GSO segmentation doesn't fail

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:29 PM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>
> We should verify that we can pull the UDP header before we attempt to do
> so. Otherwise if this fails we have no way of knowing and GSO will not work
> correctly.

This already happened in the callers udp[46]_ufo_fragment