// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
* Linux NET3: GRE over IP protocol decoder.
*
* Authors: Alexey Kuznetsov (kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/in.h>
#include <linux/tcp.h>
#include <linux/udp.h>
#include <linux/if_arp.h>
#include <linux/if_vlan.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/in6.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
#include <linux/igmp.h>
#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/ip.h>
#include <net/icmp.h>
#include <net/protocol.h>
#include <net/ip_tunnels.h>
#include <net/arp.h>
#include <net/checksum.h>
#include <net/dsfield.h>
#include <net/inet_ecn.h>
#include <net/xfrm.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <net/netns/generic.h>
#include <net/rtnetlink.h>
#include <net/gre.h>
#include <net/dst_metadata.h>
#include <net/erspan.h>
/*
Problems & solutions
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1. The most important issue is detecting local dead loops.
They would cause complete host lockup in transmit, which
would be "resolved" by stack overflow or, if queueing is enabled,
with infinite looping in net_bh.
We cannot track such dead loops during route installation,
it is infeasible task. The most general solutions would be
to keep skb->encapsulation counter (sort of local ttl),
and silently drop packet when it expires. It is a good
solution, but it supposes maintaining new variable in ALL
skb, even if no tunneling is used.
Current solution: xmit_recursion breaks dead loops. This is a percpu
counter, since when we enter
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