netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:17:47 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dmichail@...gle.com
Cc:     tom@...bertland.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0

From: Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:09:42 -0800

> ip6_make_flowlabel() determines the flow label for IPv6 packets. It's
> supposed to be passed a flow label, which it returns as is if non-0 and
> in some other cases, otherwise it calculates a new value.
> 
> The problem is callers often pass a flowi6.flowlabel, which may also
> contain traffic class bits. If the traffic class is non-0
> ip6_make_flowlabel() mistakes the non-0 it gets as a flow label and
> returns the whole thing. Thus it can return a 'flow label' longer than
> 20b and the low 20b of that is typically 0 resulting in packets with 0
> label. Moreover, different packets of a flow may be labeled differently.
> For a TCP flow with ECN non-payload and payload packets get different
> labels as exemplified by this pair of consecutive packets:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Dimitris.