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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ast@plumgrid.com
Cc: jhs@mojatatu.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, jiri@resnulli.us,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tc: fix tc actions in case of shared skb
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:29:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150711.212917.1463596559900301434.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436573411-5021-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com>

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:10:11 -0700

> TC actions need to check for very unlikely event skb->users != 1,
> otherwise subsequent pskb_may_pull/pskb_expand_head will crash.
> When skb_shared() just drop the packet, since in the middle of actions
> it's too late to call skb_share_check(), since classifiers/actions assume
> the same skb pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>

I think whatever creates this skb->users != 1 situation should be fixed,
they should clone the packet.

In fact, it would really help enormously if you could explain in detail
how this situation can actually arise.  Especially since I do not consider
it acceptable to drop the packet in this situation.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-12  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-11  0:10 [PATCH net-next] tc: fix tc actions in case of shared skb Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-12  4:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-07-13 19:47   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 20:04     ` David Miller
2015-07-13 20:17       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 20:55         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-13 22:26           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-14 10:29             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-14 11:57               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-14 12:19                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-14 15:46               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-14 22:34             ` David Miller
2015-07-14 23:08               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-15  0:58                 ` John Fastabend
2015-07-15  1:01                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 13:13 ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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