netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix IPv6 later frags parsing

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Date:   Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:00:47 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yihung.wei@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, chrism@...lanox.com, gvrose8192@...il.com,
        pshelar@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix IPv6 later frags parsing

From: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Jan 2019 09:51:57 -0800

> The previous commit fa642f08839b
> ("openvswitch: Derive IP protocol number for IPv6 later frags")
> introduces IP protocol number parsing for IPv6 later frags that can mess
> up the network header length calculation logic, i.e. nh_len < 0.
> However, the network header length calculation is mainly for deriving
> the transport layer header in the key extraction process which the later
> fragment does not apply.
> 
> Therefore, this commit skips the network header length calculation to
> fix the issue.
> 
> Reported-by: Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
> Reported-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
> Fixes: fa642f08839b ("openvswitch: Derive IP protocol number for IPv6 later frags")
> Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>

Applied.