linux/net/packet
Eyal Birger d549699048 net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header
In the patchset merged by commit b9fcf0a0d8
("Merge branch 'support-AF_PACKET-for-layer-3-devices'") L3 devices which
did not have header_ops were given one for the purpose of protocol parsing
on af_packet transmit path.

That change made af_packet receive path regard these devices as having a
visible L3 header and therefore aligned incoming skb->data to point to the
skb's mac_header. Some devices, such as ipip, xfrmi, and others, do not
reset their mac_header prior to ingress and therefore their incoming
packets became malformed.

Ideally these devices would reset their mac headers, or af_packet would be
able to rely on dev->hard_header_len being 0 for such cases, but it seems
this is not the case.

Fix by changing af_packet RX ll visibility criteria to include the
existence of a '.create()' header operation, which is used when creating
a device hard header - via dev_hard_header() - by upper layers, and does
not exist in these L3 devices.

As this predicate may be useful in other situations, add it as a common
dev_has_header() helper in netdevice.h.

Fixes: b9fcf0a0d8 ("Merge branch 'support-AF_PACKET-for-layer-3-devices'")
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201121062817.3178900-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-23 17:29:36 -08:00
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af_packet.c net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header 2020-11-23 17:29:36 -08:00
diag.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
internal.h af_packet: TPACKET_V3: replace busy-wait loop 2020-07-16 11:40:39 -07:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00