netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio: Net header needs gso_hdr

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:06:21 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio: Net header needs gso_hdr_len

Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> It's far easier to deal with GSO if we don't have to parse the packet
> to figure out the header length.  Add the field to the virtio_net_hdr
> struct (and fix the spaces that somehow crept in there).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c   |    4 +++-
> include/linux/virtio_net.h |   11 ++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -r 24ef33a4ab14 drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c  Tue Jan 15 16:59:58 2008 +1100
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c  Tue Jan 15 21:21:40 2008 +1100
> @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ static void receive_skb(struct net_devic
>                /* Header must be checked, and gso_segs computed. */
>                skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type |= SKB_GSO_DODGY;
>                skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs = 0;
> +               skb_set_transport_header(skb, hdr->gso_hdr_len);

Why do we need this? When receiving GSO packets from an untrusted
source the network stack will fill in the transport header offset
after verifying that the headers are sane.

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