netdev - Re: [PATCH] geneve: remove use of internal IP header when calling IP_ECN

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:17:01 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] geneve: remove use of internal IP header when calling
 IP_ECN_decapsulate

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:46:48PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:17 AM, John W. Linville
> <linville@...driver.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
> > index da3259ce7c8d..a917ae1cfbf3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
> > @@ -178,13 +178,15 @@ static void geneve_rx(struct geneve_sock *gs, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >
> >         skb_reset_network_header(skb);
> >
> > -       iph = ip_hdr(skb); /* Now inner IP header... */
> > -       err = IP_ECN_decapsulate(iph, skb);
> > +       if (iph)
> > +               err = IP_ECN_decapsulate(iph, skb);
> 
> It looks like this is now conditional based on !collect_md. I'm not
> sure that we want to have a difference in behavior between the two.

Sure, I can move the iph assignment higher-up and keep the other bits unconditional.

John
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