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Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:50:12 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, xeb@...l.ru,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Martin Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Talal Ahmad <talalahmad@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
        Hao Peng <flyingpeng@...cent.com>,
        Mengen Sun <mengensun@...cent.com>, dongli.zhang@...cle.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Biao Jiang <benbjiang@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: gre_demux: add skb drop reasons to
 gre_rcv()

On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:41:45 +0800 Menglong Dong wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:33:10 +0800 menglong8.dong@...il.com wrote:  
> > > +     reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
> > >       if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, 12))
> > >               goto drop;  
> >
> > REASON_HDR_TRUNC ?  
> 
> I'm still not sure about such a 'pskb_pull' failure, whose reasons may be
> complex, such as no memory or packet length too small. I see somewhere
> return a '-NOMEM' when skb pull fails.
> 
> So maybe such cases can be ignored? In my opinion, not all skb drops
> need a reason.

Ah, okay, I saw Dave's email as well. I wasn't sure if this omission
was intentional. But if it is, that's fine.