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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:21:43 +0200
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: no CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on skbs with extension headers
and recalc checksum during fragmentation
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015, at 00:48, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 15:13 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > CHECKSUM_PARTIAL should only be used on plain vanilla IPv6 + UDP packets
> > in ip6_append_data. Some drivers don't correctly handle extension headers,
> > especially not ipv6 fragmentation which could result in broken checksums.
> >
> > 1) This patch improves the test for fragmentation and extension headers
> > in ip6_append_data, so we set the ip_summed mode as early as possible
> > to the correct value to compute the checksum during memory copy-in from
> > user space.
> >
> > 2) We always call skb_checksum_help on CHECKSUM_PARTIAL fragments in
> > ip6_fragment, because we don't know if the underlying hardware can deal
> > with ip6_fragments.
> >
> > Fixes: commit 32dce968dd987 ("ipv6: Allow for partial checksums on non-ufo packets")
> > See-also: commit 72e843bb09d45 ("ipv6: ip6_fragment() should check CHECKSUM_PARTIAL")
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> > ---
> > net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> > index 8dddb45..26d2911 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> > @@ -593,6 +593,10 @@ int ip6_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
> > frag_id = ipv6_select_ident(net, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr,
> > &ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr);
> >
> > + if ((skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) &&
> > + (err = skb_checksum_help(skb)))
> > + goto fail;
> > +
> > hroom = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt->dst.dev);
> > if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
> > int first_len = skb_pagelen(skb);
> > @@ -721,10 +725,6 @@ slow_path_clean:
> > }
> >
> > slow_path:
> > - if ((skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) &&
> > - skb_checksum_help(skb))
> > - goto fail;
> > -
>
>
> It looks like this patch could be split in two, to ease future bisection
> maybe ?
Sure, will split it up.
Thanks Eric!
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