netdev - Re: unexpected GRO/veth behavior

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:44:56 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: unexpected GRO/veth behavior

On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 03:27 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On 09/10/2018 11:54 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > I *think* we can hit a similar condition with a tun device in IFF_NAPI
> > mode.
> 
> Why ?
> 
> tun_get_user() does not attach skb to a socket, that would be quite useless since skb
> 
	
I think we can hit this code path:

tun_get_user() -> tun_alloc_skb() -> sock_alloc_send_pskb() ->
skb_set_owner_w() 

Than later napi and GRO.

Cheers,

Paolo