Re: [PATCH v2,net-next 1/2] ip_gre: fix parsing gre header in ipgre_err

[Edward Cree]

On 13/09/18 18:58, David Miller wrote:
> From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:21:21 +0800
>
>> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
>>  
>>  	options = (__be32 *)(greh + 1);
>>  	if (greh->flags & GRE_CSUM) {
>> -		if (skb_checksum_simple_validate(skb)) {
>> +		if (csum_err && skb_checksum_simple_validate(skb)) {
>>  			*csum_err = true;
>>  			return -EINVAL;
>>  		}
> You want to ignore csum errors, but you do not want to elide the side
> effects of the skb_checksum_simple_validate() call which are to set
> skb->csum_valid and skb->csum.
>
> Therefore, the skb_checksum_simple_validate() call still needs to be
> performed. We just wont return -EINVAL in the NULL csum_err case.

How about just reversing the order of the AND?

	if (skb_checksum_simple_validate(skb) && csum_err) {
		*csum_err = true;
		return -EINVAL;
	}