netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] udp: restrict offloads to one namespace

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:04:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] udp: restrict offloads to one namespace

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:01:54 +0100

> udp tunnel offloads tend to aggregate datagrams based on inner
> headers. gro engine gets notified by tunnel implementations about
> possible offloads. The match is solely based on the port number.
> 
> Imagine a tunnel bound to port 53, the offloading will look into all
> DNS packets and tries to aggregate them based on the inner data found
> within. This could lead to data corruption and malformed DNS packets.
> 
> While this patch minimizes the problem and helps an administrator to find
> the issue by querying ip tunnel/fou, a better way would be to match on
> the specific destination ip address so if a user space socket is bound
> to the same address it will conflict.
> 
> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

It looks this issue is still being hashed out so I've marked this
patch as deferred for now.

THanks.
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