netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 09/10] netfilter: get ipv6 pktlen properly in length

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Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:42:07 -0500
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>,
        Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/10] netfilter: get ipv6 pktlen properly in length_mt6

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:41 AM David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/13/23 8:31 PM, Xin Long wrote:
> > For IPv6 jumbogram packets, the packet size is bigger than 65535,
> > it's not right to get it from payload_len and save it to an u16
> > variable.
> >
> > This patch only fixes it for IPv6 BIG TCP packets, so instead of
> > parsing IPV6_TLV_JUMBO exthdr, which is quite some work, it only
> > gets the pktlen via 'skb->len - skb_network_offset(skb)' when
> > skb_is_gso_v6() and saves it to an u32 variable, similar to IPv4
> > BIG TCP packets.
> >
> > This fix will also help us add selftest for IPv6 BIG TCP in the
> > following patch.
> >
>
> If this is a bug fix for the existing IPv6 support, send it outside of
> this set for -net.
>
Sure,
I was thinking of adding it here to be able to support selftest for
IPv6 too in the next patch. But it seems to make more sense to
get it into -net first, then add this selftest after it goes to net-next.

I will post it and all other fixes I mentioned in the cover-letter for
IPv6 BIG TCP for -net.

But before that, I hope Eric can confirm it is okay to read the length
of IPv6 BIG TCP packets with skb_ipv6_totlen() defined in this patch,
instead of parsing JUMBO exthdr?

Thanks.