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* [PATCH] ipv4/ip_gre: make ipgre_tunnel_xmit() not parse network header as IP unconditionally
@ 2012-12-21  1:12 Isaku Yamahata
  2012-12-21  1:48 ` Eric Dumazet
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Isaku Yamahata @ 2012-12-21  1:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: yamahata

ipgre_tunnel_xmit() parses network header as IP unconditionally.
But transmitting packets are not always IP packet. For example such packet
can be sent by packet socket with sockaddr_ll.sll_protocol set.
So make the function check if skb->protocol is IP.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index a85ae2f..8fcf0ed 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -760,7 +760,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipgre_tunnel_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev
 
 	if (dev->header_ops && dev->type == ARPHRD_IPGRE) {
 		gre_hlen = 0;
-		tiph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+		if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP))
+			tiph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+		else
+			tiph = &tunnel->parms.iph;
 	} else {
 		gre_hlen = tunnel->hlen;
 		tiph = &tunnel->parms.iph;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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