netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] af_packet: don't to defrag shared skb

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Message-ID: <1355131788.9857.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:29:48 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric@...it.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] af_packet: don't to defrag shared skb

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:23 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Oh I should say ... IP is like black magic to me ;-)
> 
> > -	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr)))
> > +	if (!skb_copy_bits(skb, 0, &iph, sizeof(iph)))
> >  		return skb;
> >  
> > -	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
> > -	if (iph->ihl < 5 || iph->version != 4)
> > +	if (iph.ihl < 5 || iph.version != 4)
> >  		return skb;
> > -	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl*4))
> > -		return skb;
> > -	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
> > -	len = ntohs(iph->tot_len);
> > -	if (skb->len < len || len < (iph->ihl * 4))
> > +
> > +	len = ntohs(iph.tot_len);
> > +	if (skb->len < len || len < (iph.ihl * 4))
> >  		return skb;
> >  
> > -	if (ip_is_fragment(ip_hdr(skb))) {
> > +	if (ip_is_fragment(&iph)) {
> >  		skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >  		if (skb) {
> > +			if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph.ihl*4))
> > +				return skb;
> 
> I moved this here but I have no idea what it does.

Well, ok, looking further it does seem kinda obvious -- ip_defrag()
assumes the IP header is (fully?) present in the skb header, so that's
what this does.

Eric (Leblond), could you test this patch?

johannes

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