netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel, ip6_gre: fix setting of DSCP on encapsulated packets

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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.