netdev - [PATCH next 0/2] ipvlan: packet scrub

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:40:12 -0800
From:   Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH next 0/2] ipvlan: packet scrub

From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

While crossing namespace boundary IPvlan aggressively scrubs packets.
This is creating problems. First thing is that scrubbing changes the 
packet type in skb meta-data to PACKET_HOST. This causes erroneous
packet delivery when dev_forward_skb() has already marked the packet
type as OTHER_HOST.

On the egress side scrubbing just before calling dev_queue_xmit()
creates another set of problems. Scrubbing remove skb->sk so the
prio update gets missed and more seriously, socket back-pressure
fails making TSQ not function correctly.

The first patch in the series just reverts the earlier change which
was adding a mac-check, but that is unnecessary if packet_type that
dev_forward_skb() has set is honored. The second path removes two of
the scrubs which are causing problems described above.

Mahesh Bandewar (2):
  Revert "ipvlan: add L2 check for packets arriving via virtual devices"
  ipvlan: remove excessive packet scrubbing

 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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