Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: pull on receive skb may need to happen earlier

David Miller
2013-07-07T01:10:03Z

From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 15:53:19 +0100

> You seem to be altering the behavior of the original code, because in
> your patch the skb->len is incremented before use, while in the original
> code (which calls skb_headlen in handle_incoming_packet) the skb->len is
> correctly set.

Indeed, I think you're right.

Because __pskb_pull_tail() decrements the number of bytes pulled
from skb->data_len, it won't be accounted for in skb->len