linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.17 023/319] drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio

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Message-ID: <20141113102653.GA9451@hercules>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:26:53 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.17 023/319] drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:03:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 10:12 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 3d0ad09412ffe00c9afa201d01effdb6023d09b4 ]
> > 
> > IPv6 does not allow fragmentation by routers, so there is no
> > fragmentation ID in the fixed header.  UFO for IPv6 requires the ID to
> > be passed separately, but there is no provision for this in the virtio
> > net protocol.
> > 
> > Until recently our software implementation of UFO/IPv6 generated a new
> > ID, but this was a bug.  Now we will use ID=0 for any UFO/IPv6 packet
> > passed through a tap, which is even worse.
> > 
> > Unfortunately there is no distinction between UFO/IPv4 and v6
> > features, so disable UFO on taps and virtio_net completely until we
> > have a proper solution.
> [...]
> 
> Please drop this patch for 3.14 and 3.17.  It causes problems for
> migration of VMs and we're probably going to revert part of this.  The
> following patch ("drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for
> virtio UFO packets") might no longer apply, in which case you can drop
> that as well until we have this sorted out upstream.
> 

I guess the same applies to the 3.16 kernel; I'll drop both patches
from the kernel currently under review.

Cheers,
--
Luís
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed.
>                                                          - Carolyn Scheppner

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