netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] packet: do skb_probe_transport

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Date:	Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:06:05 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	daniel@...earbox.net, edumazet@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com,
	tklauser@...tanz.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jasowang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] packet: do skb_probe_transport_header when we
 actually have data

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 10:53 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:


> Well, imagine following scenario (a real one, as I use it all of time,
> thus how I discovered all trafgen traffic ends up on one slave only)
> 
> Even if qdisc is bypassed on the bond0, the current handling does not
> prevent going to the slave qdiscs.
> 
> 
> So it is not clear to me why we do a selective probe depending on the
> bypass of first qdisc.

Presumably the transport_header only needs to be set for gso packets in
some drivers (look at igbvf_tso() for example)

It looks like we might need an audit and/or some guidelines/fixes.




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