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Re: [PATCH net-next 06/15] ipv4: Merge ip_local_out and ip_local_out_sk

To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/15] ipv4: Merge ip_local_out and ip_local_out_sk
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:38:56 +0200
Le 07/10/2015 22:39, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Le 06/10/2015 20:53, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
It is confusing and silly hiding a paramater so modify all of
the callers to pass in the appropriate socket or skb->sk if
no socket is known.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
[snip]
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ packet_routed:
        skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
        skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;

-       res = ip_local_out(skb);
+       res = ip_local_out(sk, skb);
As stated in the comment at the top of this function (ip_queue_xmit()), skb->sk
can be different from sk. See also commit b0270e91014d ("ipv4: add a sock
pointer to ip_queue_xmit()").
Not sure if this change is right.

Good catch.  This change should not have been buried in this patch. It
needs to be it's own separate bug fix.

As I read the code we actually do want to pass sk not skb->sk into
ip_local_out.  For all of the reasons that sk is potentially different
from skb->sk already.

The way I understand this is we have pushed an sk parameter through the
output path so that sk_mc_loop(sk) can be called with the tunnel's
socket not whatever is on skb->sk.  This allows for looking to see if
local multicast loopback is configured on the tunnels socket not on the
originating socket of the packet.
Ok, thank you for the explanation.
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