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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 17:47:23 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
syzbot <syzbot+4a2c52677a8a1aa283cb@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ip_gre: set dev->hard_header_len properly
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 5:36 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 1:32 PM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:11 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK. I understand that t->tun_hlen is the GRE header length. What is
> > > t->encap_hlen?
> >
> > I've looked at that closely either.
> >
> > Appears to be to account for additional FOU/GUE encap:
> >
> > "
> > commit 56328486539ddd07cbaafec7a542a2c8a3043623
> > Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
> > Date: Wed Sep 17 12:25:58 2014 -0700
> > net: Changes to ip_tunnel to support foo-over-udp encapsulation
> >
> > This patch changes IP tunnel to support (secondary) encapsulation,
> > Foo-over-UDP. Changes include:
> >
> > 1) Adding tun_hlen as the tunnel header length, encap_hlen as the
> > encapsulation header length, and hlen becomes the grand total
> > of these.
> > 2) Added common netlink define to support FOU encapsulation.
> > 3) Routines to perform FOU encapsulation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> > "
>
> I see the ipgre_xmit function would pull the header our header_ops
> creates, and then call __gre_xmit. __gre_xmit will call
> gre_build_header to complete the GRE header. gre_build_header expects
> to find the base GRE header after pushing tunnel->tun_hlen. However,
> if tunnel->encap_hlen is not 0, it couldn't find the base GRE header
> there. Is there a problem?
>
> Where exactly should we put the tunnel->encap_hlen header? Before the
> GRE header or after?
The L4 tunnel infra uses the two callbacks encap_hlen (e.g.,
fou_encap_hlen) and build_header (fou_build_header) in struct
ip_tunnel_encap_ops to first allocate more space and later call back
into the specific implementation to fill that data. build_header is
called from __gre6_xmit -> ip6_tnl_xmit (or its ipv4 equivalent).
This happens after gre has pushed its header, so the headers
will come before that.
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