netdev - Re: [PATCH nf next 0/3] bridge: netfilter: fix handling of ipv4 packets w. options

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Date:	Sat, 4 Oct 2014 21:55:08 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, bsd@...hat.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, davidn@...idnewall.com,
	Bandan Das <bandan.das@...atus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf next 0/3] bridge: netfilter: fix handling of ipv4
 packets w. options

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 12:04:13PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
>
> > The reason I asked for the IPCB to be built is to handle exactly
> > that case.
> 
> Why do we need to compile ip options, exactly?  If the packet
> is locally delivered, we hand it up to the ip stack which will
> compile ip options normally.

Good point.  I thought we added this because Bandan Das wanted
options.  But rereading the thread in question

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/3/16

it seems that he doesn't actually need options.  So what happened
appears to be a misunderstanding.  Bandan tried to improve my
original memset hack by compiling options which would have been
fine except that his approach ended up mangling the packet which
is a big no-no.

So the most straightforward solution is to go back to my original
hack and just do a straight memset zero of the cb area before
each entry into the IP stack from the bridge.

I'll try to create a patch that essentially reverts the patch
that led us here.

Cheers,
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