From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: set skb->protocol on tcp, raw and ip6_append_data genereated skbs
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:23:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130827092356.GB7660@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130826103123.GA30508@order.stressinduktion.org>
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> Currently we don't initialize skb->protocol when transmitting data via
> tcp, raw(with and without inclhdr) or udp+ufo or appending data directly
> to the socket transmit queue (via ip6_append_data). This needs to be
> done so that we can get the correct mtu in the xfrm layer.
>
> Setting of skb->protocol happens only in functions where we also have
> a transmitting socket and a new skb, so we don't overwrite old values.
>
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Also applied to ipsec, thanks a lot!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-27 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-26 10:31 [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: set skb->protocol on tcp, raw and ip6_append_data genereated skbs Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-08-26 10:34 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-08-27 9:23 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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