From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:40:12 -0800
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]> > > While crossing namespace boundary IPvlan aggressively scrubs packets. > This is creating problems. First thing is that scrubbing changes the > packet type in skb meta-data to PACKET_HOST. This causes erroneous > packet delivery when dev_forward_skb() has already marked the packet > type as OTHER_HOST. > > On the egress side scrubbing just before calling dev_queue_xmit() > creates another set of problems. Scrubbing remove skb->sk so the > prio update gets missed and more seriously, socket back-pressure > fails making TSQ not function correctly. > > The first patch in the series just reverts the earlier change which > was adding a mac-check, but that is unnecessary if packet_type that > dev_forward_skb() has set is honored. The second path removes two of > the scrubs which are causing problems described above. Series applied, thanks for following up on this.
