netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: small bug on rxhash calculation

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Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:43:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	chema@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	chema@...keley.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: small bug on rxhash calculation

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:18:40 +0200

> On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:40 -0700, Chema Gonzalez wrote:
>> In the current rxhash calculation function, while the
>> sorting of the ports/addrs is coherent (you get the
>> same rxhash for packets sharing the same 4-tuple, in
>> both directions), ports and addrs are sorted
>> independently. This implies packets from a connection
>> between the same addresses but crossed ports hash to
>> the same rxhash.
>> 
>> For example, traffic between A=S:l and B=L:s is hashed
>> (in both directions) from {L, S, {s, l}}. The same
>> rxhash is obtained for packets between C=S:s and D=L:l.
>> 
>> This patch ensures that you either swap both addrs and ports,
>> or you swap none. Traffic between A and B, and traffic
>> between C and D, get their rxhash from different sources
>> ({L, S, {l, s}} for A<->B, and {L, S, {s, l}} for C<->D)
>> 
>> The patch is co-written with Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>
>> ---
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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