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netback: set transport header before passing it to kernel
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:19:58 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:39:08 +0000 (10:39 -0700)
commitacc196ccdd3cc88567892243f86b74f9c30db6b2
treebf825255badcf2a88c9c18762337efe6cb2cdb6d
parenteb552c1b88aa59f3d9091c9c0351f727ff01f186
netback: set transport header before passing it to kernel

[ Upstream commit f9ca8f74399f9195fd8e01f67a8424a8d33efa55 ]

Currently, for the packets receives from netback, before doing header check,
kernel just reset the transport header in netif_receive_skb() which pretends non
l4 header. This is suboptimal for precise packet length estimation (introduced
in 1def9238: net_sched: more precise pkt_len computation) which needs correct l4
header for gso packets.

The patch just reuse the header probed by netback for partial checksum packets
and tries to use skb_flow_dissect() for other cases, if both fail, just pretend
no l4 header.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c