netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Don't clear skbuff hash for IP fragments

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:47:59 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Don't clear skbuff hash for IP
 fragments

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 17:09 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> There is nothing to gain by clearing hash, it shouldn't be an L4
> hash anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> index c10a3ce..10a64de 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ struct sk_buff *ip_check_defrag(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 user)
>  			memset(IPCB(skb), 0, sizeof(struct inet_skb_parm));
>  			if (ip_defrag(skb, user))
>  				return NULL;
> -			skb_clear_hash(skb);
>  		}
>  	}
>  	return skb;

It might be worth checking ip_defrag() will set skb->hash to the hash
provided in the first fragment, the one that might give l4 info...



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