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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	 netdev@vger.kernel.org,  "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
	"Willem de Bruijn" <willemb@google.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
	"Hassan Sultan" <hassansultan@google.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 3/3] selftests: net: tun: test outer protocol of UDP tunnel GSO packets
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:36:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.394adf46ec48d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104050131.629967-4-edumazet@kernel.org>

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Add tests writing single 4in4 Geneve GSO frames to tun devices with
> UDP tunnel offloads enabled.
> 
> tun_vnet_udptnl_proto uses a tap device:
> 
> - outer_proto_ok: an outer IPv4 header, with or without an 802.1Q tag,
>   is accepted.
> - outer_proto_bad: an outer ethertype that does not match the declared
>   tunnel type (IPv6 on an IPv4 tunnel, or NSH, with or without a VLAN
>   tag) is rejected with EINVAL.
> 
> tun_vnet_udptnl_proto_l3 uses an IFF_TUN device with a tun_pi header,
> so skb->protocol comes from userspace and there is no Ethernet header.
> The outer IPv4 header carries options, as virtio_net_hdr_tnl_to_skb()
> expects room for an Ethernet header before the outer transport header.
> 
> - outer_proto_ok: tun_pi and the frame agree on IPv4, accepted.
> - outer_proto_bad: tun_pi claims IPv6, or the IP version of the frame
>   is not 4 while tun_pi claims IPv4: rejected with EINVAL.
> 
> Without the first patch of this series, both outer_proto_bad tests fail
> because the kernel accepts the frames.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-04 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04  5:01 [PATCH net v2 0/3] net: virtio: validate outer protocol of UDP tunnel GSO packets Eric Dumazet
2026-11-04  5:01 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] " Eric Dumazet
2026-11-04 15:32   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-11-04 15:36   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-11-04  5:01 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] selftests: net: tuntap: fix UDP checksum length in build_udp_packet_csum() Eric Dumazet
2026-11-04  5:01 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] selftests: net: tun: test outer protocol of UDP tunnel GSO packets Eric Dumazet
2026-11-04 15:36   ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]

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