linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] fix header length on skb merging

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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:10:18 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@...rdevices.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] fix header length on skb merging

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:30:10 +0300 you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this patchset fixes appending newly arrived skbuff to the last skbuff of
> the socket's queue during rx path. Problem fires when we are trying to
> append data to skbuff which was already processed in dequeue callback
> at least once. Dequeue callback calls function 'skb_pull()' which changes
> 'skb->len'. In current implementation 'skb->len' is used to update length
> in header of last skbuff after new data was copied to it. This is bug,
> because value in header is used to calculate 'rx_bytes'/'fwd_cnt' and
> thus must be constant during skbuff lifetime. Here is example, we have
> two skbuffs: skb0 with length 10 and skb1 with length 4.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v2,1/3] virtio/vsock: fix header length on skb merging
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/f7154d967bc4
  - [net,v2,2/3] virtio/vsock: WARN_ONCE() for invalid state of socket
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b8d2f61fdf2a
  - [net,v2,3/3] test/vsock: new skbuff appending test
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/25209a3209ec

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