net: core: introduce skb_probe_transport_header()
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:11:21 +0000 (23:11 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:48:31 +0000 (12:48 -0400)
Sometimes, we need probe and set the transport header for packets (e.g from
untrusted source). This patch introduces a new helper
skb_probe_transport_header() which tries to probe and set the l4 header through
skb_flow_dissect(), if not just set the transport header to the hint passed by
caller.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/skbuff.h

index 4974121..fa88b96 100644 (file)
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/netdev_features.h>
+#include <net/flow_keys.h>
 
 /* Don't change this without changing skb_csum_unnecessary! */
 #define CHECKSUM_NONE 0
@@ -1559,6 +1560,19 @@ static inline void skb_set_transport_header(struct sk_buff *skb,
        skb->transport_header += offset;
 }
 
+static inline void skb_probe_transport_header(struct sk_buff *skb,
+                                             const int offset_hint)
+{
+       struct flow_keys keys;
+
+       if (skb_transport_header_was_set(skb))
+               return;
+       else if (skb_flow_dissect(skb, &keys))
+               skb_set_transport_header(skb, keys.thoff);
+       else
+               skb_set_transport_header(skb, offset_hint);
+}
+
 static inline unsigned char *skb_network_header(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        return skb->head + skb->network_header;