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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:05:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436774742.9402.3.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150713072352.GA8485@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 15:23 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> The real issue here is that the recv path no longer handles shared
> skbs.  So either we need to fix the recv path to not touch skbs
> without cloning them, or we need to get rid of the use of shared
> skbs in netlink.
> 
> In fact it looks I introduced the bug way back in
> 
> commit a59322be07c964e916d15be3df473fb7ba20c41e
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Wed Dec 5 01:53:40 2007 -0800
> 
>     [UDP]: Only increment counter on first peek/recv
> 
> I will try to mend this error :)
> 
> Cheers,

Herbert, UDP peek support is very buggy anyway, because of deferred
checksums

__skb_checksum_complete() will happily manipulate csum, ip_summed,
csum_complete_sw & csum_valid

Ideally, peek should never touch skb (but skb->users)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 11:51 [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-10 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-10 14:08   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-13  7:23 ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:04   ` net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag Herbert Xu
2015-07-15 23:13     ` David Miller
2015-07-13  8:05   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2015-07-13  8:10     ` [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-13  8:25         ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13  8:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-13  8:31             ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-13 12:01               ` net: Fix skb csum races when peeking Herbert Xu
2015-07-13 14:25                 ` Herbert Xu
2015-07-14  6:11                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-15 23:14                 ` David Miller
2015-07-13  8:54   ` [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-13  9:04     ` Herbert Xu

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