On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 01:01:44PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

build_skb() is supposed to be followed by
skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN), so that IP headers are word-aligned.
(Best practice is to reserve NET_IP_ALIGN+NET_SKB_PAD, but the NET_SKB_PAD
part is only a performance optimization if tunnel encaps are added.)

Unfortunately virtio_net has not provisioned this reserve.
We can only use build_skb() for arches where NET_IP_ALIGN == 0

We might refine this later, with enough testing.

Fixes: fb32856b16ad ("virtio-net: page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

on alpha, sh4 (little endian).

Thanks!

Guenter