netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ip_tunnel: Do not use inner ip-header-id for tunnel ip-header-id.

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pshelar@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jrajahalme@...ira.com, aatteka@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip_tunnel: Do not use inner ip-header-id for
 tunnel ip-header-id.

From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:41:06 -0700

> Using inner-id for tunnel id is not safe in some rare cases.
> E.g. packets coming from multiple sources entering same tunnel
> can have same id. Therefore on tunnel packet receive we
> could have packets from two different stream but with same
> source and dst IP with same ip-id which could confuse ip packet
> reassembly.
> 
> Following patch reverts optimization from commit
> 490ab08127 (IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification.)
> 
> CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@...ira.com>
> CC: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@...ira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>

Applied, thanks.
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