[PATCH net v2 1/1] net: stmmac: Prevent DSA tags from breaking COE on stmmac
Romain Gantois
romain.gantois at bootlin.com
Wed Jan 3 01:11:54 PST 2024
Hi Linus,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Linus Walleij wrote:
...
> > +static inline bool stmmac_has_ip_ethertype(struct sk_buff *skb)
> > +{
> > + __be16 proto = eth_header_parse_protocol(skb);
>
> I made a new function for this in my patch
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231222-new-gemini-ethernet-regression-v4-2-a36e71b0f32b@linaro.org/
>
> I was careful to add if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)) because Eric
> was very specific about this, I suppose you could get fragment frames that
> are smaller than an ethernet header.
Okay nice, then I'll rewrite this series to use the new function once your
changes make it in.
> Should we add an if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)) to
> eth_header_parse_protocol()?
That does sound logical to me but I couldn't tell you what the impact on current
callers would be. The net maintainers will probably have a better idea of this.
Best Regards,
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Romain Gantois, Bootlin
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