netdev - Re: [PATCH] IB/IPoIB: Check the headroom size

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:39:12 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Erez Shitrit <erezsh@....mellanox.co.il>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Honggang LI <honli@...hat.com>, Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/IPoIB: Check the headroom size

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Erez Shitrit <erezsh@....mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com> wrote:

>> thanks for the info. Is this bug there since ipoib/bonding day one (and hence my bug...)
>> or was indeed introduced later? if later, can you explain how
>> fc791b633515 introduced that or you only know it by bisection?

> commit "fc791b633515" changes the size of the dev_hardlen to be 24 and
> required 24 extra bytes in the skb, before it was only 4, if skb is
> aligned to eth "mode" it already has 14 bytes for hard-header.
> So only after that commit we have the issue.

If got you right, Paolo's commit introduced a regression, so we (I
guess you and
Paolo) need to either solve it or we (community) should consider a
revert, please suggest.

The bug is now in stable and distro kernels, so please act.

Or.