Re: [Patch net] ip_gre: set dev->hard_header_len properly

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:11 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:20 PM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:17 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > However, there's something I don't understand in the GRE code. The
> > > ipgre_header function only creates an IP header (20 bytes) + a GRE
> > > base header (4 bytes), but pushes and returns "t->hlen +
> > > sizeof(*iph)". What is t->hlen?
> >
> > GRE is variable length depending on flags:
> >
> >         tunnel->tun_hlen = gre_calc_hlen(tunnel->parms.o_flags);
> >
> >
> > > It seems to me it is the sum of
> > > t->tun_hlen and t->encap_hlen. What are these two?
>
> OK. I understand that t->tun_hlen is the GRE header length. What is
> t->encap_hlen?

I've looked at that closely either.

Appears to be to account for additional FOU/GUE encap:

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commit 56328486539ddd07cbaafec7a542a2c8a3043623
Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 17 12:25:58 2014 -0700
    net: Changes to ip_tunnel to support foo-over-udp encapsulation

    This patch changes IP tunnel to support (secondary) encapsulation,
    Foo-over-UDP. Changes include:

    1) Adding tun_hlen as the tunnel header length, encap_hlen as the
       encapsulation header length, and hlen becomes the grand total
       of these.
    2) Added common netlink define to support FOU encapsulation.
    3) Routines to perform FOU encapsulation.

    Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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