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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tc: fix tc actions in case of shared skb
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:13:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A3B996.6090501@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436573411-5021-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com>

On 07/10/15 20:10, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> TC actions need to check for very unlikely event skb->users != 1,
> otherwise subsequent pskb_may_pull/pskb_expand_head will crash.
> When skb_shared() just drop the packet, since in the middle of actions
> it's too late to call skb_share_check(), since classifiers/actions assume
> the same skb pointer.
>

Alexei,
To add to what Dave said - are the rules specified here:
Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt
insufficient?

cheers,
jamal

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-11  0:10 [PATCH net-next] tc: fix tc actions in case of shared skb Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-12  4:29 ` David Miller
2015-07-13 19:47   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 20:04     ` David Miller
2015-07-13 20:17       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 20:55         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-13 22:26           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-14 10:29             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-14 11:57               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-14 12:19                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-07-14 15:46               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-14 22:34             ` David Miller
2015-07-14 23:08               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-15  0:58                 ` John Fastabend
2015-07-15  1:01                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-13 13:13 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]

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