netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] veth: extend features to support tunneling

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Date:	Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:38:34 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] veth: extend features to support tunneling

On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 11:00 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 23:31 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> >
> >> In case of VMs sending gso packets over tap and tunnel in the host,
> >> ip_forward is not in the picture.
> >>
> >
> > I was specifically answering to #2 which should use ip forwarding, of
> > course. Note that my patch was a POC : We have many other places where
> > the typical MTU check is simply disabled as soon as skb is GSO.
> 
> I don't think #2 will do ip_forward either. veth goes into a bridge
> and vxlan just adds encap.

The point is : nothing really checks mtu for gso packets.

Same construct was copy/pasted everywhere. See br_dev_queue_push_xmit()
for another example.

In this particular case, I guess vxlan should generate the ICMP.

But really, its Sunday and I currently do not care ;)


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