Hi Nicolas,
thanks for pointing this out.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:53:10PM +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Linux 4.11-rc4 contains the following code in function
> __skb_flow_dissect(), file net/core/flow_dissector.c:
>
> const struct arphdr *arp;
> struct arphdr *_arp;
It looks like *_arp should be _arp.
And it looks like this affects net, since v4.11-rc1, and net-next.
I'll test the fix and post a patch unless someone beats me to it.
>
> arp = __skb_header_pointer(skb, nhoff, sizeof(_arp), data,
> hlen, &_arp);
>
>
> Here _arp and arp are both pointers to arphdr structures. In other calls
> to __skb_header_pointer(), the buffer argument (_arp here) would have
> been a struct instead of a pointer. What makes ARP packets different in
> __skb_flow_dissect()?
>
> Thanks,
> Nicolas
>
> PS: the code which I am curious about seems to have been introduced in
> 4.11-rc1 with commit 55733350e5e8 ("flow disector: ARP support")
