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net/core/dev: Warn on a too-short GRO frame

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When signaling that a GRO frame is ready to be processed, the network stack
correctly checks length and aborts processing when a frame is less than 14
bytes. However, such a condition is really indicative of a broken driver,
and should be loudly signaled, rather than silently dropped as the case is
today.

Convert the condition to use net_warn_ratelimited() to ensure the stack
loudly complains about such broken drivers.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Aaron Conole 2016-04-02 15:26:43 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit 4da46cebbd
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@ -4663,6 +4663,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *napi_frags_skb(struct napi_struct *napi)
if (unlikely(skb_gro_header_hard(skb, hlen))) {
eth = skb_gro_header_slow(skb, hlen, 0);
if (unlikely(!eth)) {
net_warn_ratelimited("%s: dropping impossible skb from %s\n",
__func__, napi->dev->name);
napi_reuse_skb(napi, skb);
return NULL;
}