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

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Message-ID: <5464EF03.9020002@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:48:51 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	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

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On 11/12/2014, 10:03 PM, 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.

The same holds for 3.12, I suppose?

thanks,
- -- 
js
suse labs
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