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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:10:02 -0800 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, John <john.phillips5@....com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] gro: Make GRO aware of lightweight tunnels. On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 17:59 -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > GRO is currently not aware of tunnel metadata generated by lightweight > tunnels and stored in the dst. This leads to two possible problems: > * Incorrectly merging two frames that have different metadata. > * Leaking of allocated metadata from merged frames. > > This avoids those problems by comparing the tunnel information before > merging, similar to how we handle other metadata (such as vlan tags), > and releasing any state when we are done. > > Reported-by: John <john.phillips5@....com> > Fixes: 2e15ea39 ("ip_gre: Add support to collect tunnel metadata.") > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org> > --- Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
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