netdev - Re: Bonding driver has bad load balancing for forwarded traffic, 3.7+

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Message-Id: <20130418.150910.1780951630545456624.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	vitalyb@...enet.dn.ua, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com, linux@...2.net
Subject: Re: Bonding driver has bad load balancing for forwarded traffic,
 3.7+

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:03:24 -0700

> [PATCH] bonding: fix l23 and l34 load balancing in forwarding path
> 
> Since commit 6b923cb7188d46 (bonding: support for IPv6 transmit hashing)
> bonding doesn't properly hash traffic in forwarding setups.
> 
> Vitaly V. Bursov diagnosed that skb_network_header_len() returned 0 in
> this case.
> 
> More generally, the transport header might not be in the skb head.
> 
> Use pskb_may_pull() & skb_header_pointer() to get it right, and use
> proto_ports_offset() in bond_xmit_hash_policy_l34() to get support for
> more protocols than TCP and UDP.
> 
> Reported-by: Vitaly V. Bursov <vitalyb@...enet.dn.ua>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, but:

> +						sizeof(_l4), &_l4);						
                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's some rather amazing trailing whitespace.  Are you trying to break
free of earth's atmosphere? :-)
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