Re: [net-next PATCH RFC 0/3] Preserve skb->mark through VTI tunnels

Steffen Klassert
2015-05-27T07:48:40Z

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 03:41:10PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> These patches are meant to try and address the fact the VTI tunnels are
> currently overwriting the skb->mark value. I am generally happy with the
> first two patches, however the third patch still modifies the skb->mark,
> though it undoes after the fact.

I don't see any better solution, so I think this should be ok for now.
On the long run we need to replace this gre key/mark matching with
a separate interface.

>
> The main problem I am trying to address is the fact that currently if I use
> an v6 over v6 VTI tunnel I cannot receive any traffic on the interface as
> the skb->mark is bleeding through and causing the traffic to be dropped.

This is broken in the current mainline, so it should go into the ipsec
tree as a bugfix. I'd merge this patchset if you submit it to that tree.

Thanks!