netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3 0/3] net/sched: fix actions reading the network header in case of QinQ packets

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 11:42:41 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuang Li <shuali@...hat.com>,
        Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/3] net/sched: fix actions reading the network
 header in case of QinQ packets

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:26 AM Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> 'act_csum' was recently fixed to mangle the IPv4/IPv6 header if a packet
> having one or more VLAN headers was processed: patch #1 ensures that all
> VLAN headers are in the linear area of the skb.
> Other actions might read or mangle the IPv4/IPv6 header: patch #2 and #3
> fix 'act_pedit' and 'act_skbedit' respectively.

Maybe, just maybe, vlan tags are supposed to be handled by act_vlan?
Which means maybe users have to pipe act_vlan to these actions.

>From the code reuse perspective, you are adding TCA_VLAN_ACT_POP
to each of them.

Thanks.