linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: fix wrong network header length

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Date:   Wed, 9 Feb 2022 17:06:10 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "lina.wang" <lina.wang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kernel hackers" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, "Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Willem Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, <zhuoliang@...iatek.com>,
        <chao.song@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix wrong network header length

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 18:25:07 +0800 lina.wang wrote:
> We use NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST not for forwarding scenary, just for
> software udp gro. Whatever NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST or NETIF_F_GRO_FWD,
> skb_segment_list should not have bugs.
> 
> We modify skb_segment_list, not in epbf. One point is traversing the
> segments costly, another is what @Maciej said, *other* helper may have
> the same problem. In skb_segment_list, it calls
> skb_headers_offset_update to update different headroom, which implys
> header maybe different.

Process notes:
 - the patch didn't apply so even if the discussion concludes that 
   the patch was good you'll need to rebase on netdev/net and repost;
 - please don't top post.