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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: [net-next 0/5] set transport header for untrusted packets
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:19:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364278799-37285-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> (raw)

We don't set transport header for untrusted packets in the past, but for the
follwoing reasons, we need to do it now.

- Better packet length estimation (introduced in 1def9238) needs l4 header for
  gso packets to compute the header length.
- Some driver needs l4 header (e.g. ixgbe needs tcp header to do atr).

So this patches tries to set transport header for packets from untrusted source
(netback, packet, tuntap, macvtap). Plus a fix for better estimation on packet
length for DODGY packet.

Tested on tun/macvtap/packet, compile test on netback.

Jason Wang (5):
  macvtap: set transport header before passing skb to lower device
  tuntap: set transport header before passing it to kernel
  packet: set transport header before doing xmit
  netback: set transport header before passing it to kernel
  net_sched: better precise estimation on packet length for untrusted
    packets

 drivers/net/macvtap.c             |    9 +++++++++
 drivers/net/tun.c                 |   10 ++++++++++
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 net/core/dev.c                    |    8 +++++++-
 net/packet/af_packet.c            |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26  6:19 Jason Wang [this message]
2013-03-26  6:19 ` [net-next 1/5] macvtap: set transport header before passing skb to lower device Jason Wang
2013-03-26 15:06   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-27  3:12     ` Jason Wang
2013-03-26  6:19 ` [net-next 2/5] tuntap: set transport header before passing it to kernel Jason Wang
2013-03-26 15:07   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-26  6:19 ` [net-next 3/5] packet: set transport header before doing xmit Jason Wang
2013-03-26  6:19 ` [net-next 4/5] netback: set transport header before passing it to kernel Jason Wang
2013-04-10 13:33   ` Ian Campbell
2013-04-11  6:37     ` Jason Wang
2013-03-26  6:19 ` [net-next 5/5] net_sched: better precise estimation on packet length for untrusted packets Jason Wang
2013-03-26 16:45 ` [net-next 0/5] set transport header " David Miller

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