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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.17 023/319] drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:03:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 10:12 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 3d0ad09412ffe00c9afa201d01effdb6023d09b4 ]
> >
> > IPv6 does not allow fragmentation by routers, so there is no
> > fragmentation ID in the fixed header. UFO for IPv6 requires the ID to
> > be passed separately, but there is no provision for this in the virtio
> > net protocol.
> >
> > Until recently our software implementation of UFO/IPv6 generated a new
> > ID, but this was a bug. Now we will use ID=0 for any UFO/IPv6 packet
> > passed through a tap, which is even worse.
> >
> > Unfortunately there is no distinction between UFO/IPv4 and v6
> > features, so disable UFO on taps and virtio_net completely until we
> > have a proper solution.
> [...]
>
> Please drop this patch for 3.14 and 3.17. It causes problems for
> migration of VMs and we're probably going to revert part of this. The
> following patch ("drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for
> virtio UFO packets") might no longer apply, in which case you can drop
> that as well until we have this sorted out upstream.

Oops, I missed this for 3.14-stable, I'll go revert that as the first
patch to be queued up for the next round there.

I've dropped this from 3.17-stable, and the patch "drivers/net, ipv6:
Select IPv6 fragment idents for virtio UFO packets" still applied with
some fuzz, I'll do a test build to ensure I didn't break anything there.

thanks,

greg k-h


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