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Message-Id: <20140102.190743.459474382050321416.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:07:43 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: weichunc@...mgrid.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@...il.com, ast@...mgrid.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
joseph.gasparakis@...el.com, or.gerlitz@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] ipv4: fix tunneled VM traffic over hw VXLAN/GRE
GSO NIC
From: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@...mgrid.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:10:22 -0800
> VM to VM GSO traffic is broken if it goes through VXLAN or GRE
> tunnel and the physical NIC on the host supports hardware VXLAN/GRE
> GSO offload (e.g. bnx2x and next-gen mlx4).
>
> Two issues -
> (VXLAN) VM traffic has SKB_GSO_DODGY and SKB_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL with
> SKB_GSO_TCP/UDP set depending on the inner protocol. GSO header
> integrity check fails in udp4_ufo_fragment if inner protocol is
> TCP. Also gso_segs is calculated incorrectly using skb->len that
> includes tunnel header. Fix: robust check should only be applied
> to the inner packet.
>
> (VXLAN & GRE) Once GSO header integrity check passes, NULL segs
> is returned and the original skb is sent to hardware. However the
> tunnel header is already pulled. Fix: tunnel header needs to be
> restored so that hardware can perform GSO properly on the original
> packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@...mgrid.com>
Applied, thanks.
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