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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Superfluous skb->nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:39:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140430093905.GA4318@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5360BA5A.7020200@parallels.com>

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:54:50PM +0400, Vasily Averin wrote:
> Currently bridge can silently drop ipv4 fragments.
> If node have loaded nf_defrag_ipv4 module but have no nf_conntrack_ipv4,
> br_nf_pre_routing defragments incoming ipv4 fragments
> but nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit does not allow re-fragment combined packet back,
> and therefore it is dropped in br_dev_queue_push_xmit without incrementing of any failcounters

Patrick already mentioned that bridges should not defragment unless
conntrack is enabled.

Please, see: http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=139878065822267&w=2

I think we have to consider some alternative way to fix what you
report.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-30  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <534FB7D2.3020705@parallels.com>
2014-04-20  5:33 ` [PATCH 1/1] superfluous skb->nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit Vasily Averin
2014-04-24 16:32   ` Florian Westphal
2014-04-28 12:37     ` Vasily Averin
2014-04-28 13:16       ` Florian Westphal
2014-04-28 14:25         ` Vasily Averin
2014-04-28 14:32           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-04-30  9:06           ` Vasily Averin
2014-04-30  8:54         ` [PATCH] bridge: Superfluous " Vasily Averin
2014-04-30  9:39           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-04-30 10:02             ` Florian Westphal
2014-05-04 12:54           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-05-04 19:04             ` Vasily Averin
2014-05-04 19:25               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-05-04 20:17                 ` [PATCH v2] bridge: superfluous " Vasily Averin
2014-05-05 14:07                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-04-29 14:10   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Patrick McHardy

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