netdev - Re: FW: PROBLEM: VLAN LRO issue

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 03:25:47 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Steven Liu (劉人豪) 
	<steven.liu@...iatek.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FW: PROBLEM: VLAN LRO issue

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:01 +0800, Steven Liu (劉人豪) wrote:
> Hi Sir,
> 
> I found the issue about VLAN LRO feature and below is bug description and patch for your reference, thanks.
> 
> [1.] One line summary of the problem: 
> VLAN LRO issue
> 
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> LRO implementation cannot handle VLAN tagged packets correctly.
> It uses correct packet length when creating new LRO session, but uses wrong packet length when putting following packets into exist LRO session.
> 
> [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
> Networking
> 
> [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
> Linux-3.4-rc3 and below
> 
> [5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information
>      resolved (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt) System is still working, but cannot speed up VLAN tagged traffic.
> 
> [X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds:
> We have to apply below patch to fix this issue.
> 
> --- linux-3.4-rc3/net/ipv4/inet_lro.orig        2012-05-08 20:09:44.810366089 +0800
> +++ linux-3.4-rc3/net/ipv4/inet_lro.c   2012-05-08 20:09:33.331679419 +0800
> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int __lro_proc_skb(struct net_lro
>         if (lro_desc->tcp_next_seq != ntohl(tcph->seq))
>                 goto out2;
> 
> -       if (lro_tcp_ip_check(iph, tcph, skb->len, lro_desc))
> +       if (lro_tcp_ip_check(iph, tcph, skb->len - vlan_hdr_len, lro_desc))
>                 goto out2;
> 
>         lro_add_packet(lro_desc, skb, iph, tcph);
> 

Hi 

This looks like a good fix, could you please submit an official patch ?

Documentation/SubmittingPatches



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