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author | Shmulik Ladkani | 2016-09-29 12:10:41 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller | 2016-10-03 21:41:40 -0400 |
commit | b6a7920848cab619b5e434fdc0338778c63ef3f3 (patch) | |
tree | 1c307d0fbfe61743ffae7c896710b7381d4a2900 /README | |
parent | f39acc84aad10710e89835c60d3b6694c43a8dd9 (diff) |
net: skbuff: Limit skb_vlan_pop/push() to expect skb->data at mac header
skb_vlan_pop/push were too generic, trying to support the cases where
skb->data is at mac header, and cases where skb->data is arbitrarily
elsewhere.
Supporting an arbitrary skb->data was complex and bogus:
- It failed to unwind skb->data to its original location post actual
pop/push.
(Also, semantic is not well defined for unwinding: If data was into
the eth header, need to use same offset from start; But if data was
at network header or beyond, need to adjust the original offset
according to the push/pull)
- It mangled the rcsum post actual push/pop, without taking into account
that the eth bytes might already have been pulled out of the csum.
Most callers (ovs, bpf) already had their skb->data at mac_header upon
invoking skb_vlan_pop/push.
Last caller that failed to do so (act_vlan) has been recently fixed.
Therefore, to simplify things, no longer support arbitrary skb->data
inputs for skb_vlan_pop/push().
skb->data is expected to be exactly at mac_header; WARN otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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