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Message-ID: <cover.1697779681.git.yan@cloudflare.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:32:46 -0700
From: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Aya Levin <ayal@...dia.com>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...udflare.com,
Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
Alexander H Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] ipv6: avoid atomic fragment on GSO output
When the ipv6 stack output a GSO packet, if its gso_size is larger than
dst MTU, then all segments would be fragmented. However, it is possible
for a GSO packet to have a trailing segment with smaller actual size
than both gso_size as well as the MTU, which leads to an "atomic
fragment". Atomic fragments are considered harmful in RFC-8021. An
Existing report from APNIC also shows that atomic fragments are more
likely to be dropped even it is equivalent to a no-op [1].
The series contains following changes on IPv6 output:
* drop dst_allfrag check, which is always false now
* refactor __ip6_finish_output code to separate GSO and non-GSO packet processing,
mirroring IPv4 side logic
* avoid generating atomic fragment on GSO packets
Link: https://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2022-03-01-ipv6-frag.pdf [1]
change log:
V2 -> V3: split the changes to separate commits as Willem de Bruijn suggested
V1 is incorrect and omitted
V2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZS1%2Fqtr0dZJ35VII@debian.debian/
Yan Zhai (3):
ipv6: remove dst_allfrag test on ipv6 output
ipv6: refactor ip6_finish_output for GSO handling
ipv6: avoid atomic fragment on GSO packets
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--
2.30.2
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