linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] veth: move loopback logic to common location

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:02:20 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@...ell.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Edge Virtual Bridging <evb@...oogroups.com>,
	Anna Fischer <anna.fischer@...com>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Jens Osterkamp <jens@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@...ibm.com>,
	Mark Smith <lk-netdev@...netdev.nosense.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] veth: move loopback logic to common location

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 09:51:19 Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > +     skb_dst_drop(skb);
> > +     skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
> > +     skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
> > +     skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> > +     skb->mark = 0;
> 
> skb->mark clearing should stay private to veth since its usually
> supposed to stay intact. The only exception is packets crossing
> namespaces, where they should appear like a freshly received skbs.

But isn't that what we want in macvlan as well when we're
forwarding from one downstream interface to another?

I did all my testing with macvlan interfaces in separate namespaces
communicating with each other, so I'd assume that we should always
clear skb->mark and skb->dst in this function. Maybe I should make
the documentation clearer?

---
net: clarify documentation of dev_forward_skb

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1433,6 +1433,10 @@ static inline void net_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
  * dev_forward_skb can be used for injecting an skb from the
  * start_xmit function of one device into the receive queue
  * of another device.
+ *
+ * The receiving device may be in another namespace, so
+ * we have to clear all information in the skb that could
+ * impact namespace isolation.
  */
 int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
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