linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ip6_gre: Set flowi6_proto as IPPROTO

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Date:	Sat, 21 May 2016 11:46:29 +0800
From:	严海双 <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ip6_gre: Set flowi6_proto as IPPROTO_GRE in xmit path.


> On May 21, 2016, at 1:48 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 18:05:52 +0800
> 
>> In gre6 xmit path, we are sending a GRE packet, so set fl6 proto
>> to IPPROTO_GRE properly.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
> 
> I think it would be a lot better to initialize the flow protocol field
> properly in ip6gre_tnl_link_config() instead of fixing it up every
> single transmit.
> 
> 

I agree, I will modify the changes in v2.

Thanks

Haishuang