Re: [PATCH v2 net] gre: fix error handler

[Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 06:24:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> 1) gre_parse_header() can be called from gre_err()
> 
>    At this point transport header points to ICMP header, not the inner
> header.
> 
> 2) We can not really change transport header as ipgre_err() will later
> assume transport header still points to ICMP header (using icmp_hdr())
> 
> 3) pskb_may_pull() logic in gre_parse_header() really works
>   if we are interested at zone pointed by skb->data
> 
> 4) As Jiri explained in commit b7f8fe251e46 ("gre: do not pull header in
> ICMP error processing") we should not pull headers in error handler.
> 
> So this fix :
> 
> A) changes gre_parse_header() to use skb->data instead of
> skb_transport_header()
> 
> B) Adds a nhs parameter to gre_parse_header() so that we can skip the
> not pulled IP header from error path.
>   This offset is 0 for normal receive path.
> 
> C) remove obsolete IPV6 includes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
> Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>

I know this has already been applied. Didn't get to it earlier, sorry.
The patch looks good. Thanks!

 Jiri