netdev - Re: [PATCH] tunnel: eliminate recursion field

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Message-ID: <20090925215108.GA3527@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:51:08 -0700
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tunnel: eliminate recursion field

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> It seems recursion field from "struct ip_tunnel" is not anymore needed.
> recursion prevention is done at the upper level (in dev_queue_xmit()),
> since we use HARD_TX_LOCK protection for tunnels.

What if we get async processing in between, e.g., nf_queue?
In that case we could end up with a packet that went round and
around until it exceeded the MTU.

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