From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/26] net/ipv6: switch ipv6_flowlabel_opt to sockptr_t
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:00:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200727130029.GA26393@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200727121505.GA1804864@shredder>
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:15:05PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> I see a regression with IPv6 flowlabel that I bisected to this patch.
> When passing '-F 0' to 'ping' the flow label should be random, yet it's
> the same every time after this patch.
Can you send a reproducer?
>
> It seems that the pointer is never advanced after the call to
> sockptr_advance() because it is passed by value and not by reference.
> Even if you were to pass it by reference I think you would later need to
> call sockptr_decrease() or something similar. Otherwise it is very
> error-prone.
>
> Maybe adding an offset to copy_to_sockptr() and copy_from_sockptr() is
> better?
We could do that, although I wouldn't add it to the existing functions
to avoid the churns and instead add copy_to_sockptr_offset or something
like that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 6:08 get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 01/26] bpfilter: fix up a sparse annotation Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:14 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 02/26] net/bpfilter: split __bpfilter_process_sockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 03/26] bpfilter: reject kernel addresses Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 14:42 ` David Laight
2020-07-23 14:44 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23 14:56 ` David Laight
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 04/26] net: add a new sockptr_t type Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 15:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2020-07-23 16:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-23 16:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 05/26] net: switch copy_bpf_fprog_from_user to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 06/26] net: switch sock_setbindtodevice " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 07/26] net: switch sock_set_timeout " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 08/26] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 8:39 ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 09/26] net/xfrm: switch xfrm_user_policy " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 10/26] netfilter: remove the unused user argument to do_update_counters Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 11/26] netfilter: switch xt_copy_counters to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 12/26] netfilter: switch nf_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 15:03 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:16 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 8:07 ` David Laight
2020-07-28 8:17 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:21 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 13/26] bpfilter: switch bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:16 ` David Laight
2020-07-23 11:44 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 14/26] net/ipv4: switch ip_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 15/26] net/ipv4: merge ip_options_get and ip_options_get_from_user Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 16/26] net/ipv4: switch do_ip_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 17/26] net/ipv6: switch ip6_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 18/26] net/ipv6: split up ipv6_flowlabel_opt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 19/26] net/ipv6: switch ipv6_flowlabel_opt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 12:15 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-07-27 13:33 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 18:22 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:24 ` David Laight
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 20/26] net/ipv6: factor out a ipv6_set_opt_hdr helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 21/26] net/ipv6: switch do_ipv6_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 22/26] net/udp: switch udp_lib_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 23/26] net/tcp: switch ->md5_parse " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 24/26] net/tcp: switch do_tcp_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 25/26] net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 8:39 ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-08-06 22:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-07 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-07 9:18 ` David Laight
2020-08-07 18:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-08 13:54 ` David Laight
2020-07-23 6:09 ` [PATCH 26/26] net: optimize the sockptr_t for unified kernel/user address spaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-24 22:43 ` get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 David Miller
2020-07-26 7:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-26 7:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-26 7:46 ` David Miller
2020-07-27 9:51 ` David Laight
2020-07-27 13:48 ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 14:09 ` David Laight
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