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* [PATCH] xen/netfront: do not mark packets of length < MSS as GSO
@ 2009-01-13 15:30 Ian Campbell
  2009-01-14  4:18 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ian Campbell @ 2009-01-13 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  Cc: Ian Campbell, Ian Campbell, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, jgarzik, netdev

Linux assumes that skbs marked for GSO are longer than MSS. In
particular tcp_tso_segment assumes that skb_segment will return a
chain of at least 2 skbs.

Therefore netfront should not pass such a packet up the stack.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index cd6184e..3777c09 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -953,6 +953,11 @@ err:
 		else if (rx->flags & NETRXF_data_validated)
 			skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
 
+		if (skb->data_len < skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size) {
+			skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = 0;
+			skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = 0;
+		}
+
 		__skb_queue_tail(&rxq, skb);
 
 		np->rx.rsp_cons = ++i;
-- 
1.5.6.5


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