Re: [PATCH v3] virtio: Work around frames incorrectly marked as gso

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:55 PM Anton Ivanov
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 24/02/2020 19:27, Willem de Bruijn wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:26 AM [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>

Some of the locally generated frames marked as GSO which
arrive at virtio_net_hdr_from_skb() have no GSO_TYPE, no
fragments (data_len = 0) and length significantly shorter
than the MTU (752 in my experiments).

Do we understand how these packets are generated?

No, we have not been able to trace them.

The only thing we know is that this is specific to locally generated
packets. Something arriving from the network does not show this.

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Else it seems this
might be papering over a deeper problem.

The stack should not create GSO packets less than or equal to
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size. See for instance the check in
tcp_gso_segment after pulling the tcp header:

         mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size;
         if (unlikely(skb->len <= mss))
                 goto out;

What is the gso_type, and does it include SKB_GSO_DODGY?

0 - not set.

Thanks for the follow-up details. Is this something that you can trigger easily?

An skb_dump() + dump_stack() when the packet socket gets such a
packet may point us to the root cause and fix that.