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Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2014 19:54:51 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] udptunnel: Add SKB_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL during gro_complete.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com> wrote:
> Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> wrote:
>
>>When doing GRO processing for UDP tunnels, we never add
>>SKB_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL to gso_type - only the type of the inner protocol
>>is added (such as SKB_GSO_TCPV4). The result is that if the packet is
>>later resegmented we will do GSO but not treat it as a tunnel. This
>>results in UDP fragmentation and since that is not the original layout
>>of the skb, a panic in skb_segment().
>>
>>Reported-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
>>Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
>>---
>>This problem occurs back to 3.14 for VXLAN but the FOU portion needs to
>>be removed for kernels other than the 'net' tree.
>
>         This patch does not resolve the problem when applied to a
> 3.17-ish kernel; the panic message is below, and appears to be
> unchanged.

Hmm, OK, thanks for testing. I think this patch is probably still good
to apply as it may solve a problem after we get this one figured out.
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