netdev - [V4] dev : fix mtu check when TSO is enabled

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:40:35 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel@...e.fr>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	nightnord@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [V4] dev : fix mtu check when TSO is enabled

From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>

In case the device where is coming from the packet has TSO enabled,
we should not check the mtu size value as this one could be bigger
than the expected value.

This is the case for the macvlan driver when the lower device has
TSO enabled. The macvlan inherit this feature and forward the packets
without fragmenting them. Then the packets go through dev_forward_skb
and are dropped. This patch fix this by checking TSO is not enabled
when we want to check the mtu size.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc: Andrian Nord <nightnord@...il.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 563ddc2..3da9fb0 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1454,6 +1454,27 @@ static inline void net_timestamp_check(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		__net_timestamp(skb);
 }
 
+static inline bool is_skb_forwardable(struct net_device *dev,
+				      struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	unsigned int len;
+
+	if (!(dev->flags & IFF_UP))
+		return false;
+
+	len = dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
+	if (skb->len <= len)
+		return true;
+
+	/* if TSO is enabled, we don't care about the length as the packet
+	 * could be forwarded without being segmented before
+	 */
+	if (skb_is_gso(skb))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 /**
  * dev_forward_skb - loopback an skb to another netif
  *
@@ -1477,8 +1498,7 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	skb_orphan(skb);
 	nf_reset(skb);
 
-	if (unlikely(!(dev->flags & IFF_UP) ||
-		     (skb->len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN)))) {
+	if (unlikely(!is_skb_forwardable(dev, skb))) {
 		atomic_long_inc(&dev->rx_dropped);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
-- 
1.7.1

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