From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 0/2] Fix outer UDP checksums for IPv6 VXLAN tunnels
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:13:05 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141125.141305.1951284300777976974.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141125035808.13612.52556.stgit@ahduyck-workstation.home>
From: alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:08:25 -0800
> In testing against an older kernel I found a couple issues in the IPv6
> VXLAN tunnel checksum logic for the outer UDP checksum.
>
> First the default transitioned from using an outer checksum to not using
> one. Second, sometime after that the checksum inputs were changed
> resulting the checksum not being correct if it were computed.
>
> These two issues prevented a ping from the newer kernel to the older one.
> With these two changes applied I verified I was able to send traffic over
> the VXLAN tunnel to a link partner on an older kernel.
>
> The boolean flip fix can be submitted for 3.17 stable as well since the
> patch that introduced the issue was included in that kernel.
Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-25 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-25 4:08 [net PATCH 0/2] Fix outer UDP checksums for IPv6 VXLAN tunnels alexander.duyck
2014-11-25 4:08 ` [net PATCH 1/2] ip6_udp_tunnel: Fix checksum calculation alexander.duyck
2014-11-25 4:08 ` [net PATCH 2/2] vxlan: Fix boolean flip in VXLAN_F_UDP_ZERO_CSUM6_[TX|RX] alexander.duyck
2014-11-25 4:20 ` Tom Herbert
2014-11-25 19:13 ` David Miller [this message]
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