From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] network: Allow af_packet to transmit +4 bytes for VLAN packets.
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:57:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297407446.2493.5.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297375149-18458-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com>
Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 13:59 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com a
écrit :
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> This allows user-space to send a '1500' MTU VLAN packet on a
> 1500 MTU ethernet frame. The extra 4 bytes of a VLAN header is
> not usually charged against the MTU when other parts of the
> network stack is transmitting vlans...
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> ---
> :100644 100644 91cb1d7... ef7f378... M net/packet/af_packet.c
> net/packet/af_packet.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index 91cb1d7..ef7f378 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ retry:
> */
>
> err = -EMSGSIZE;
> - if (len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len)
> + if (len > dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN)
> goto out_unlock;
>
> if (!skb) {
> @@ -497,6 +497,19 @@ retry:
> goto retry;
> }
>
> + if (len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len)) {
> + /* Earlier code assumed this would be a VLAN pkt,
> + * double-check this now that we have the actual
> + * packet in hand.
> + */
> + struct ethhdr *ehdr;
> + skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
> + ehdr = eth_hdr(skb);
> + if (ehdr->h_proto != htons(ETH_P_8021Q)) {
> + err = -EMSGSIZE;
> + goto out_unlock;
This would leak skb.
> + }
> + }
>
> skb->protocol = proto;
> skb->dev = dev;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 21:59 [PATCH 1/2] igb: Allow extra 4 bytes on RX for vlan tags greearb
2011-02-10 21:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] network: Allow af_packet to transmit +4 bytes for VLAN packets greearb
2011-02-11 6:57 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-02-11 17:38 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-11 18:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-11 15:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] igb: Allow extra 4 bytes on RX for vlan tags Jeff Kirsher
2011-02-17 11:04 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-02-17 17:28 ` Ben Greear
2011-07-21 0:18 ` Jesse Gross
2011-07-21 0:27 ` Ben Greear
2011-07-21 1:21 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-07-21 6:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2011-07-21 21:44 ` Jesse Gross
2011-08-25 18:51 ` Ben Greear
2011-08-25 23:31 ` Alexander Duyck
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