netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gre: Fix GREv4 TCPv6 segmentation.

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Date:	Thu, 02 May 2013 20:00:55 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sesse@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gre: Fix GREv4 TCPv6 segmentation.

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 19:14 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> For ipv6 traffic, GRE can generate packet with strange GSO
> bits, e.g. ipv4 packet with SKB_GSO_TCPV6 flag set.  Therefore
> following patch relaxes check in inet gso handler to allow
> such packet for segmentation.
> This patch also fixes wrong skb->protocol set that was done in
> gre_gso_segment() handler.
> 
> Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@...gle.com>
> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> ---
> Same issue exist in 3.8.
> ---

Thanks a lot.

I did a quick test and it appears to fix the problem.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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