From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vyasevich@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, phil@nwl.cc, kaber@trash.net,
vyasevic@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix issues with vlans without REORDER_HEADER
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:39:06 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151117.143906.2184213061071335097.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447706625-25979-1-git-send-email-vyasevic@redhat.com>
From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:43:43 -0500
> A while ago Phil Sutter brought up an issue with vlans without
> REORDER_HEADER and bridges. The problem was that if a vlan
> without REORDER_HEADER was a port in the bridge, the bridge ended
> up forwarding corrupted packets that still contained the vlan header.
> The same issue exists for bridge mode macvlan/macvtap devices.
>
> An additional issue with vlans without REORDER_HEADER is that stacking
> them also doesn't work. The reason here is that skb_reorder_vlan_header()
> function assumes that it on ETH_HLEN bytes deep into the packet. That
> is not the case, when you a vlan without REORRDER_HEADER flag set.
>
> This series attempts to correct these 2 issues.
>
> 1) To solve the stacked vlans problem, the patch simply use
> skb->mac_len as an offset to start copying mac addresses that
> is part of header reordering.
>
> 2) To fix the issue with bridge/macvlan/macvtap, the second patch
> simply doesn't write the vlan header back to the packet if the
> vlan device is either a bridge or a macvlan port. This ends up
> being the simplest and least performance intrussive solution.
>
> I've considered extending patch 2 to all stacked devices (essentially
> checked for the presense of rx_handler), but that feels like a broader
> restriction and _may_ break existing uses.
Series applied, thanks for working on this Vlad.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-17 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 20:43 [PATCH 0/2] Fix issues with vlans without REORDER_HEADER Vladislav Yasevich
2015-11-16 20:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] vlan: Fix untag operations of stacked vlans with REORDER_HEADER off Vladislav Yasevich
2015-12-14 14:51 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-12-14 22:44 ` [PATCH net] skbuff: Fix offset error in skb_reorder_vlan_header Vladislav Yasevich
2015-12-15 5:31 ` David Miller
2015-12-15 14:57 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-11-16 20:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] vlan: Do not put vlan headers back on bridge and macvlan ports Vladislav Yasevich
2015-11-17 19:39 ` David Miller [this message]
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