netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ipv6: RFC 4884 partial support for SIT/GRE tunnels

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Message-ID: <1466309009.6850.10.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:03:29 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ghorbel@...asoftware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ipv6: RFC 4884 partial support for SIT/GRE
 tunnels

On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 20:54 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 16:26:40 -0700
> 
> > @@ -588,12 +594,26 @@ int ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhs, int type)
> >  		skb2->dev = rt->dst.dev;
> >  
> >  	ipv6_addr_set_v4mapped(ip_hdr(skb)->saddr, &temp_saddr);
> > +
> > +	if (data_len) {
> > +		/* RFC 4884 (partial) support :
> > +		 * insert 0 padding at the end, before the extensions
> > +		 */
> > +		__skb_push(skb2, nhs);
> > +		skb_reset_network_header(skb2);
> > +		memcpy(skb2->data, skb2->data + nhs, data_len - nhs);
> 
> Since this is overlapping, it really need to use memmove() instead of
> memcpy().


Interesting, I always thought memcpy(dest, src, xxx) was ok if src >
dest