netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove useless check in napi_gro

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:33:19 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove useless check in napi_gro_frags()

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 21:20 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > How many times should we crash before napi_frags_skb() returns NULL ?
> ..
> >                         return NULL;
> 
> Huh?  Now I'm lost here, too.


Well, Ethernet drivers should not feed GRO with frames with less than 14 bytes.

( eth_type_trans() would crash the same )

Lets fix buggy drivers instead of adding defensive code all over the stack.

napi_gro_frags() is used by exactly 10 drivers, and I am pretty sure they are OK.




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