netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] udp: Handle large UFO packets from untrusted sources

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:17:57 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] udp: Handle large UFO packets from
	untrusted sources

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:51:23PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work for UDP without any changes.  
> skb_segment() currently adds transport header to
> each segmented skb. But when we are using IP fragmentation, only the  
> first fragment should include the UDP
> header.
> We either need to fix skb_segment() to handle IP fragmentation or write  
> a new skb_fragment(). I will look into
> this when i get some time.

Couldn't you get around this by setting skb->transport_header to
skb->network_header before getting into skb_segment?

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