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Commit f015b900 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Steffen Klassert
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xfrm: Linearize the skb after offloading if needed.



With offloading enabled, esp_xmit() gets invoked very late, from within
validate_xmit_xfrm() which is after validate_xmit_skb() validates and
linearizes the skb if the underlying device does not support fragments.

esp_output_tail() may add a fragment to the skb while adding the auth
tag/ IV. Devices without the proper support will then send skb->data
points to with the correct length so the packet will have garbage at the
end. A pcap sniffer will claim that the proper data has been sent since
it parses the skb properly.

It is not affected with INET_ESP_OFFLOAD disabled.

Linearize the skb after offloading if the sending hardware requires it.
It was tested on v4, v6 has been adopted.

Fixes: 7785bba2 ("esp: Add a software GRO codepath")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
parent 842665a9
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