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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	hannes@stressinduktion.org, aduyck@mirantis.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb()
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:07:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920170742.GR8920@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920184333.17444823@griffin>

On (09/20/16 18:43), Jiri Benc wrote:
> 
> IPv6 header is certainly not 20 bytes.

vxlan encapsulates an IPv6/ethernet frame in a UDP/IPv4/ethernet packet.
the ipv4 header is 20 bytes (without options).
mld_newpack is dealing with the vxlan net_device in this case,
which has ->hard_header_len of 14, and ->needed_headroom of 64,
so hlen (used in mld_newpack) comes out to be 80.

> If you see unaligned access, something is wrong. But I very much doubt
> that the problem is at the place you're trying to fix. Could you share
> the traces with us?

Exactly what traces do you want? I think you can check this easily
by using printk's predicated on IS_ALIGNED checks in vxlan_build_skb().
IPv6 MLD triggers this quite easily.

I will try out Hannes' solution (which makes sense) in a moment, 
and report back.

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 14:27 [PATCH net-next] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb() Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 15:31 ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-20 15:49   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:11 ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 16:31   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:43     ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:07       ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2016-09-20 17:15         ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:09       ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:19         ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-20 17:24         ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-22  5:52         ` David Miller
2016-09-22 21:30           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-23 12:06             ` David Miller
2016-09-23 14:17               ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-23 17:20                 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-23 17:38                   ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-23 23:41                     ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-24  0:43                       ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-28 17:03                         ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-28 18:08                           ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-28 19:56                             ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:45 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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