netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over

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Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:38:03 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, lw1a2.jing@...il.com, fw@...len.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David L Stevens <david.stevens@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over_panic for devs
 with large MTUs

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 17:20, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 15:42 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> > It has been reported that generating an MLD listener report on
> > devices with large MTUs (e.g. 9000) and a high number of IPv6
> > addresses can trigger a skb_over_panic():
> 
> ...
> 
> >  v2->v3:
> >   - Still had a discussion w/ Hannes and improved the code a bit to
> >     make it more clear to read
> 
> I am very sorry Daniel, but I found v2 much easier to understand :(
> 
> Could you refrain from doing cleanups in this patch,
> only provide the very minimal fix ?
> 
> No empty lines additions or deletions and stuff like that...
> 
> Then, we can cleanup for net-next later if you really want ;)
> 
> I know its _very_ tempting to do cleanups, but its very time consuming
> to review patches having real stuff done (like bug fixes) and cleanups.

My point was that the max_t(int, ..., ...) assignment to
reserved_tailroom was too implicit in case we allocated an skb smaller
than the mtu and reserved_tailroom should become '0'.

I would still vote for this version, but see the problem with the noise
caused by newline updates. Eric, would you mind a new version with only
the essential parts changed and keeping this calculation so we don't
need to change it twice for net and for net-next?

Bye,
Hannes
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