Re[2]: [PATCH 2/3] ipvs: Fix faulty IPv6 extension header handling in IPVS

["Hans Schillstrom" <hans@schillstrom.com>]

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>On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
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>> Based on patch from: Hans Schillstrom
>>
>> IPv6 headers must be processed in order of appearance,
>> neither can it be assumed that Upper layer headers is first.
>> If anything else than L4 is the first header IPVS will throw it.
>>
>> IPVS will write SNAT & DNAT modifications at a fixed pos which
>> will corrupt the message. Proper header position must be found
>> before writing modifying packet.
>>
>> This patch contains a lot of API changes.  This is done, to avoid
>> the costly scan of finding the IPv6 headers, via ipv6_find_hdr().
>> Finding the IPv6 headers is done as early as possible, and passed
>> on as a pointer "struct ip_vs_iphdr *" to the affected functions.
>
>How about we change netfilter to set up the skb's transport header
>at an early time so we can avoid all (most of) these header scans
>in netfilter?

I think that would be great, maybe it should be global i.e. not only a netfilter issue.