netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] gro: add combined call_gro_receive() + INDIRECT_CALL

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Date:   Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:53:42 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] gro: add combined call_gro_receive() +
 INDIRECT_CALL_INET() helper

Hello,

On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 18:42 +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> call_gro_receive() is used to limit GRO recursion, but it works only
> with callback pointers.
> There's a combined version of call_gro_receive() + INDIRECT_CALL_2()
> in <net/inet_common.h>, but it doesn't check for IPv6 modularity.

AFAICS, ip6_offload is builtin even when IPv6 is a module, so the above
should not be needed.

Cheers,

Paolo