netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ip_gre: increase inner ip header ID during segmentation

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Date:	Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:25:05 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ip_gre: increase inner ip header ID during
 segmentation

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 10:12 -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> wrote:
> > From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> >
> > According to the previous discussion [1] on netdev list, DaveM insists
> > we should increase the IP header ID for each segmented packets.
> > This patch fixes it.
> >
> 
> Outer IP header ids are incremented in inet_gso_segment for GRE. So it
> is already done. In any case I don't think we should increment
> IP-Identification in GRE handler, This is layering violation.
> This breaks GRE with IPV6 payload.

I knew, $subject mentions this increases the *inner* IP header ID, not
outer one.

But you are probably right that we should check for IPv4, I will send
patch to fix it.

Thanks.

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