[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH V2 RFC 2/2] ixgbe: ixgbe_atr() compute l4_proto only if non-paged data has network/transport headers
Sowmini Varadhan
sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com
Mon Oct 17 19:18:04 UTC 2016
On (10/17/16 11:15), Alexander Duyck wrote:
> I would say you probably only need the first check here for skb->data
> and could probably skip the second part. You will be testing for
> skb_tail_pointer in all the other tests you added so this check is
> redundant anyway.
>
> Also you might want to go through and wrap these with unlikely() since
> most of these are exception cases.
Ok.. v3 will have this.
> > /* Currently only IPv4/IPv6 with TCP is supported */
> > switch (hdr.ipv4->version) {
> > case IPVERSION:
> > /* access ihl as u8 to avoid unaligned access on ia64 */
> > hlen = (hdr.network[0] & 0x0F) << 2;
> > + if (skb_tail_pointer(skb) < hdr.network + hlen +
> > + sizeof(struct tcphdr))
> > + return;
> > l4_proto = hdr.ipv4->protocol;
> > break;
> > case 6:
> > hlen = hdr.network - skb->data;
> > + if (skb_tail_pointer(skb) < hdr.network + hlen +
> > + sizeof(struct tcphdr))
> > + return;
> > l4_proto = ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &hlen, IPPROTO_TCP, NULL, NULL);
> > hlen -= hdr.network - skb->data;
> > break;
>
> I believe one more check is needed after this block to verify the TCP
> header fields are present.
>
> So you probably need to add a check for "skb_tail_pointer(skb) <
> (hdr.network + hlen + 20)".
But isnt that the same thing as the checks before l4_proto computation above?
--Sowmini
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