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On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/3/23 12:22 AM, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > tcpdump is able to access the header of these skbs which is in host
> > memory, but not the payload in device memory. Here is an example
> > session with my netcat-like test for device memory TCP:
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/FRjKf0kv
> >
> > tcpdump seems to work, and the length of the packets above is correct.
> > tcpdump -A however isn't able to print the payload of the packets:
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/2PcNxaZV
>
> That is my expectation. The tcpdump is just an easy example of accessing
> the skb page frags. skb_copy_and_csum_bits used by icmp is another
> example that can walk frags wanting access to device memory. You did not
> cause a panic or trip a WARN_ON for example with the tcpdump?
>

Change for af_packet was not too hard :)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index a2dbeb264f260e5b8923ece9aac99fe19ddfeb62..aa4133d1b1e0676e408499ea4534b51262394432
100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ static int packet_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev,
                }
        }

-       snaplen = skb->len;
+       snaplen = skb->devmem ? skb_headlen(skb) : skb->len;

        res = run_filter(skb, sk, snaplen);
        if (!res)
@@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev,
                }
        }

-       snaplen = skb->len;
+       snaplen = skb->devmem ? skb_headlen(skb) : skb->len;

        res = run_filter(skb, sk, snaplen);
        if (!res)


And a generic change in pskb_may_pull() ( __pskb_pull_tail() more
exactly) was enough to cover most other cases.




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