netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: only create late gso-skb if skb is already set up with CHECKSUM

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Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:13:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jbenc@...hat.com, wakko@...mx.eu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: only create late gso-skb if skb is already
 set up with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:43:25 +0100

> Otherwise we break the contract with GSO to only pass CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
> skbs down. This can easily happen with UDP+IPv4 sockets with the first
> MSG_MORE write smaller than the MTU, second write is a sendfile.
> 
> Returning -EOPNOTSUPP lets the callers fall back into normal sendmsg path,
> were we calculate the checksum manually during copying.
> 
> Commit d749c9cbffd6 ("ipv4: no CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on MSG_MORE corked
> sockets") started to exposes this bug.
> 
> Fixes: d749c9cbffd6 ("ipv4: no CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on MSG_MORE corked sockets")
> Reported-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>
> Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.