linux/net
Simon Horman fe3a5f6c79 openvswitch: allow output of MPLS packets on tunnel vports
Currently output of MPLS packets on tunnel vports is not allowed by Open
vSwitch. This is because historically encapsulation was done in such a way
that the inner_protocol field of the skb needed to hold the inner protocol
for both MPLS and tunnel encapsulation in order for GSO segmentation to be
performed correctly.

Since b2acd1dc39 ("openvswitch: Use regular GRE net_device instead of
vport") Open vSwitch makes use of lwt to output to tunnel netdevs which
perform encapsulation. As no drivers expose support for MPLS offloads this
means that GSO packets are segmented in software by validate_xmit_skb(),
which is called from __dev_queue_xmit(), before tunnel encapsulation occurs.
This means that the inner protocol of MPLS is no longer needed by the time
encapsulation occurs and the contention on the inner_protocol field of the
skb no longer occurs.

Thus it is now safe to output MPLS to tunnel vports.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-18 18:26:38 -04:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: iphc: fix SAM/DAM bit comment 2016-03-10 19:51:29 +01:00
9p Rework and error handling fixes, primarily in the fscatch and fd transports. 2016-01-24 12:39:09 -08:00
802
8021q vlan: propagate gso_max_segs 2016-03-17 21:05:01 -04:00
appletalk appletalk: fix erroneous return value 2016-02-18 14:59:34 -05:00
atm
ax25 ax25: add link layer header validation function 2016-03-09 22:13:01 -05:00
batman-adv batman-adv: clarify CFG80211 dependency 2016-03-02 13:45:47 -05:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Fix potential buffer overflow with Add Advertising 2016-03-11 16:28:43 +01:00
bridge bridge: fix potential use-after-free when hook returns QUEUE or STOLEN verdict 2016-03-14 15:46:41 -04:00
caif net: caif: fix misleading indentation 2016-03-14 13:09:50 -04:00
can
ceph libceph: don't spam dmesg with stray reply warnings 2016-02-24 20:28:51 +01:00
core net: dst_cache_per_cpu_dst_set() can be static 2016-03-18 17:45:08 -04:00
dcb
dccp tcp/dccp: remove obsolete WARN_ON() in icmp handlers 2016-03-17 21:06:40 -04:00
decnet
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: refine netdev event notifier 2016-03-14 16:05:32 -04:00
ethernet eth: Pull header from first fragment via eth_get_headlen 2016-02-24 13:58:05 -05:00
hsr
ieee802154 ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix return of netdev notifier 2016-02-23 20:29:40 +01:00
ipv4 tcp/dccp: remove obsolete WARN_ON() in icmp handlers 2016-03-17 21:06:40 -04:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2016-03-14 22:10:25 -04:00
ipx
irda irda: fix a potential use-after-free in ircomm_param_request 2016-01-29 22:56:46 -08:00
iucv af_iucv: Validate socket address length in iucv_sock_bind() 2016-01-19 14:21:08 -05:00
kcm kcm: Add receive message timeout 2016-03-09 16:36:15 -05:00
key
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
l3mdev net: l3mdev: address selection should only consider devices in L3 domain 2016-02-26 14:22:26 -05:00
lapb
llc af_llc: fix types on llc_ui_wait_for_conn 2016-02-17 16:12:13 -05:00
mac80211 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-03-08 12:34:12 -05:00
mac802154 mac802154: Fixes kernel oops when unloading a radio driver 2016-02-23 20:29:40 +01:00
mpls mpls: autoload lwt module 2016-02-21 22:00:28 -05:00
netfilter netfilter: nf_conntrack: consolidate lock/unlock into unlock_wait 2016-03-15 01:10:42 +01:00
netlabel netlabel: do not initialise statics to NULL 2016-03-07 11:08:26 -05:00
netlink nfnetlink: Revert "nfnetlink: add support for memory mapped netlink" 2016-02-18 11:42:22 -05:00
netrom
nfc NFC: Close a race condition in llcp_sock_getname() 2016-02-25 08:41:01 +01:00
openvswitch openvswitch: allow output of MPLS packets on tunnel vports 2016-03-18 18:26:38 -04:00
packet packet: validate variable length ll headers 2016-03-09 22:13:01 -05:00
phonet sock: struct proto hash function may error 2016-02-11 03:54:14 -05:00
rds RDS: IB: Support Fastreg MR (FRMR) memory registration mode 2016-03-02 14:13:19 -05:00
rfkill Here's another round of updates for -next: 2016-03-01 17:03:27 -05:00
rose
rxrpc rxrpc: Replace all unsigned with unsigned int 2016-03-13 15:14:57 -04:00
sched net/flower: Fix pointer cast 2016-03-11 12:04:37 -05:00
sctp sctp: consolidate local_bh_disable/enable + spin_lock/unlock to _bh variant 2016-03-16 19:20:50 -04:00
sunrpc One fix for a bug that could cause a NULL write past the end of a buffer 2016-02-25 19:31:01 -08:00
switchdev net: ndo_fdb_dump should report -EMSGSIZE to rtnl_fdb_dump. 2016-02-26 15:04:02 -05:00
tipc tipc: make sure IPv6 header fits in skb headroom 2016-03-14 12:23:12 -04:00
unix Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
vmw_vsock vsock: Fix blocking ops call in prepare_to_wait 2016-02-13 05:57:39 -05:00
wimax
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-03-08 12:34:12 -05:00
x25
xfrm net: preserve IP control block during GSO segmentation 2016-01-15 14:35:24 -05:00
compat.c
Kconfig net: add a hardware buffer management helper API 2016-03-14 12:19:46 -04:00
Makefile kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module 2016-03-09 16:36:14 -05:00
socket.c net: Fix use after free in the recvmmsg exit path 2016-03-14 12:41:49 -04:00
sysctl_net.c