netdev - Re: net: rps: support 802.1Q

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:05:18 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: rps: support 802.1Q

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
>
> Should this really be reading an unlimited number of tags?

Not unlimited, but it won't stop until reaching the end of the packet.

>  What if an
> attacker starts sending packets full of VLAN tags?  Since this runs
> before netfilter, there would be no way to prevent those packets burning
> our CPU time.  And if there are legitimately multiple VLAN tags, they
> presumably won't all have the 802.1q Ethertype.
>

Do we need to limit the number of rounds to stop this kind of "bad"
packets from burning our CPU time? Then,  __netif_receive_skb() has to
be update too, so the inspection of tunnel in __skb_get_rxhash() does.
Is there a such limitation in xfrm?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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