netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio: Work around frames incorrectly marked as gso

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:55:44 +0000
From:   Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: Work around frames incorrectly marked as gso



On 09/12/2019 10:48, anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com wrote:
> From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
> 
> Some of the frames marked as GSO which arrive at
> virtio_net_hdr_from_skb() have no GSO_TYPE, no
> fragments (data_len = 0) and length significantly shorter
> than the MTU (752 in my experiments).
> 
> This is observed on raw sockets reading off vEth interfaces
> in all 4.x and 5.x kernels I tested.
> 
> These frames are reported as invalid while they are in fact
> gso-less frames.
> 
> This patch marks the vnet header as no-GSO for them instead
> of reporting it as invalid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/virtio_net.h | 8 ++++++--
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> index 0d1fe9297ac6..d90d5cff1b9a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> @@ -112,8 +112,12 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_from_skb(const struct sk_buff *skb,
>   			hdr->gso_type = VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4;
>   		else if (sinfo->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCPV6)
>   			hdr->gso_type = VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV6;
> -		else
> -			return -EINVAL;
> +		else {
> +			if (skb->data_len == 0)
> +				hdr->gso_type = VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE;
> +			else
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +		}
>   		if (sinfo->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCP_ECN)
>   			hdr->gso_type |= VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN;
>   	} else
> 

ping.

-- 
Anton R. Ivanov
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