netdev - Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:LINE! (2)

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Date:   Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:51:10 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     syzbot 
        <bot+ed0838d0fa4c4f2b528e20286e6dc63effc7c14d@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        davem <davem@...emloft.net>, kuznet <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        yoshfuji <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:LINE! (2)

On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 12:36 +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> The new patch works to me, just two questions:
> 1. should it use "idev->cnf.mtu6" here for mld ?

No idea why some parts of IPv6 would use a different view of device
mtu. Maybe others can comment.

> 
> 2.  'if (int < unsigned int)' is still not nice, though in 'if
> (AVAILABLE(skb) < sizeof())'
>      AVAILABLE(skb) seems always to return >= 0 after your patch.

Really if AVAILABLE(skb) was negative, a bug already happened.