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Message-ID: <20170517181800.07788dd8@xeon-e3>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 18:18:00 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: "I-Dawson, Peter A" <Peter.A.Dawson@...ing.com>
Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel, ip6_gre: fix setting of DSCP on
encapsulated packets
On Thu, 18 May 2017 01:11:01 +0000
"I-Dawson, Peter A" <Peter.A.Dawson@...ing.com> wrote:
> This fix addresses two problems in the way the DSCP field is formulated on the
> encapsulating header of IPv6 tunnels.
> This fix addresses Bug 195661. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195661
>
> 1) The IPv6 tunneling code was manipulating the DSCP field of the encapsulating
> packet using the 32b flowlabel. Since the flowlabel is only the lower 20b it
> was incorrect to assume that the upper 12b containing the DSCP and ECN fields
> would remain intact when formulating the encapsulating header. This fix
> handles the 'inherit' and 'fixed-value' DSCP cases explicitly using the extant
> dsfield u8 variable.
>
> 2) The use of INET_ECN_encapsulate(0, dsfield) in ip6_tnl_xmit was incorrect
> and resulted in the DSCP value always being set to 0.
> ---
> net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
This patch looks correct, but has trivial style issues like using spaces
instead of tabs and other junk. Please run checkpatch.pl, look at the
results and resubmit.
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