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SubjectRe: linux-next Problems with VPN tunnel - no packets sent


On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> Recent linux-next has broken my Juniper VPN client. The tunnel gets
> created,
> routes get added, but trying to actually send packets across results
> in packets
> just disappearing. 'ifconfig' consistently reports exactly 1 packet
> sent (even
> after a 'ping' command or similar should have sent multiple packets.
>
> tun0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1400
> inet 172.27.1.40 netmask 255.255.255.255 destination
> 172.27.1.40
> unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> txqueuelen 500 (UNSPEC)
> RX packets 1 bytes 355 (355.0 B)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 1 bytes 61 (61.0 B)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
> Still broken in next-20141201, and bisection fingers this commit:
>
> commit e0b46d0ee9c240c7430a47e9b0365674d4a04522
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Fri Nov 7 21:22:23 2014 +0800
>
> tun: Use iovec iterators
>
> This patch removes the use of skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec in
> favour of the iovec iterator-based skb_copy_datagram_iter.
>
> This commit is in the kernel, and does *not* fix the problem:
>
> commit 8c847d254146d32c86574a1b16923ff91bb784dd
> Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu Nov 13 16:54:14 2014 +0800
>
> tun: fix issues of iovec iterators using in tun_put_user()
>
> So there's apparently additional issues that Jason didn't address. I
> tried to
> revert Herbert's patch for testing, but there's at least 5 or 6
> other patches
> that need reverting first, so I abandoned that unless it becomes
> necessary...
>
> What's the best way to proceed?

See another fixes from Herbert, it probably fixes your issue:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=141734182302021&w=2



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