From: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
To: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] vxlan: keep reserved_bits across changelink
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:52:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8733ts6b70.fsf@pmachata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261023-b4-vxlan-changelink-gbp-v1-1-f0d13951c09b@proxmox.com> (Hannes Laimer's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:14:27 +0200")
Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com> writes:
> vxlan_nl2conf() derives reserved_bits from the extension attributes
> set in the netlink message if IFLA_VXLAN_RESERVED_BITS is absent. A
> changelink having it set is rejected, so this means that every
> changelink will reset all extension bits and reserve them again.
> vxlan_nl2flag() rejects setting a flag on an attribute that is
> create-only on changelink. So also setting an extension attribute will
> fail before it can un-reserve its fields.
> Keeping the reserved_bits on changelink is safe because anything a
> changelink accepts leaves the header bits enabled extensions use
> unchanged.
> Fixes: e4f8647767cf ("vxlan: Track reserved bits explicitly as part of the configuration")
> Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20260828134708.692354-1-h.laimer@proxmox.com/
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-26 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-23 11:14 [PATCH net 0/2] vxlan: keep reserved_bits on changelink Hannes Laimer
2026-10-23 11:14 ` [PATCH net 1/2] vxlan: keep reserved_bits across changelink Hannes Laimer
2026-10-26 7:58 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-26 9:52 ` Petr Machata [this message]
2026-10-23 11:14 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: forwarding: vxlan_reserved: add gbp changelink test Hannes Laimer
2026-10-26 7:58 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-26 9:52 ` Petr Machata
2026-10-23 14:57 ` [PATCH net 0/2] vxlan: keep reserved_bits on changelink Gabriel Goller
2026-10-26 5:36 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-10-27 10:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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