Re: [RFC PATCH] af_packet: don't to defrag shared skb

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:23 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

Oh I should say ... IP is like black magic to me ;-)

quoted

-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr)))
+	if (!skb_copy_bits(skb, 0, &iph, sizeof(iph)))
 		return skb;
 
-	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
-	if (iph->ihl < 5 || iph->version != 4)
+	if (iph.ihl < 5 || iph.version != 4)
 		return skb;
-	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl*4))
-		return skb;
-	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
-	len = ntohs(iph->tot_len);
-	if (skb->len < len || len < (iph->ihl * 4))
+
+	len = ntohs(iph.tot_len);
+	if (skb->len < len || len < (iph.ihl * 4))
 		return skb;
 
-	if (ip_is_fragment(ip_hdr(skb))) {
+	if (ip_is_fragment(&iph)) {
 		skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (skb) {
+			if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph.ihl*4))
+				return skb;

I moved this here but I have no idea what it does.

Well, ok, looking further it does seem kinda obvious -- ip_defrag()
assumes the IP header is (fully?) present in the skb header, so that's
what this does.

Eric (Leblond), could you test this patch?

johannes