netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: Properly set L4 keys on "later" IP fragments.

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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:42:10 -0700
From:   Justin Pettit <jpettit@....org>
To:     Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>,
        Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: Properly set L4 keys on "later" IP
 fragments.


> On Aug 25, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org> wrote:
> 
> Actually I am not sure about this change. caller of this function
> (ovs_ct_execute()) does skb-pull and push of L2 header, calling
> ovs_flow_key_update() is not safe here, it expect skb data to point to
> L2 header.

Thanks for the feedback, Pravin and David.  Greg Rose has a revised version that will address the issues you raised and also make it so that we don't bother re-extracting the L2 headers.  He'll hopefully get that out today once we've done some internal testing on it.

--Justin