Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:

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From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:11:21 +0200

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On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:

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Hmmm, isn't that what qdisc_skb_cb is for?  And even private data is
explicitly allocated:

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 	unsigned char		data[24];

there. :-)

Yes, but some other layers can use the same trick so it might collide.

Inserting the bond field in qdisc_skb_cb (level0) is safer.

Do you suggest that Infiniband does the same thing? :-)

I wonder if another way to solve this is not letting ndo_select_queue()
method the responsibility to call skb_set_queue_mapping() itself ?

(ie removing skb_set_queue_mapping() done in dev_pick_tx())

bonding would not have to save/restore skb queue mapping ?

Partial patch : (we have to audit all ndo_select_queue()

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index cd09819..c6c92d5 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c

@@ -2368,6 +2368,7 @@ static struct netdev_queue *dev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	if (dev->real_num_tx_queues == 1)
 		queue_index = 0;
+		skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, queue_index);
 	else if (ops->ndo_select_queue) {
 		queue_index = ops->ndo_select_queue(dev, skb);
 		queue_index = dev_cap_txqueue(dev, queue_index);

@@ -2391,9 +2392,9 @@ static struct netdev_queue *dev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
 					sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);
 			}
 		}
+		skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, queue_index);
 	}
 
-	skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, queue_index);
 	return netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, queue_index);
 }