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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>
To: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] mld, igmp: Fix reserved tailroom calculation
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:09:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D56A71.8050400@stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456787013-3277-1-git-send-email-bpoirier@suse.com>

On 01.03.2016 00:03, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> The current reserved_tailroom calculation fails to take hlen and tlen into
> account.
>
> skb:
> [__hlen__|__data____________|__tlen___|__extra__]
> ^                                               ^
> head                                            skb_end_offset
>
> In this representation, hlen + data + tlen is the size passed to alloc_skb.
> "extra" is the extra space made available in __alloc_skb because of
> rounding up by kmalloc. We can reorder the representation like so:
>
> [__hlen__|__data____________|__extra__|__tlen___]
> ^                                               ^
> head                                            skb_end_offset
>
> The maximum space available for ip headers and payload without
> fragmentation is min(mtu, data + extra). Therefore,
> reserved_tailroom
> = data + extra + tlen - min(mtu, data + extra)
> = skb_end_offset - hlen - min(mtu, skb_end_offset - hlen - tlen)
> = skb_tailroom - min(mtu, skb_tailroom - tlen) ; after skb_reserve(hlen)
>
> Compare the second line to the current expression:
> reserved_tailroom = skb_end_offset - min(mtu, skb_end_offset)
> and we can see that hlen and tlen are not taken into account.
>
> The min() in the third line can be expanded into:
> if mtu < skb_tailroom - tlen:
> 	reserved_tailroom = skb_tailroom - mtu
> else:
> 	reserved_tailroom = tlen
>
> Depending on hlen, tlen, mtu and the number of multicast address records,
> the current code may output skbs that have less tailroom than
> dev->needed_tailroom or it may output more skbs than needed because not all
> space available is used.
>
> Fixes: 4c672e4b ("ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over_panic for devs with large MTUs")
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse•com>

I like it, thanks a lot!

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-27 19:57 [PATCH] mld, igmp: Fix reserved tailroom calculation Benjamin Poirier
2016-02-29 14:57 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-02-29 15:19   ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-02-29 15:38     ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-02-29 15:43     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-02-29 18:08       ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-02-29 18:28         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-02-29 23:03           ` [PATCH net v2] " Benjamin Poirier
2016-03-01 10:09             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2016-03-01 10:18             ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-03-01 16:00               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-03-03 20:42             ` David Miller

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