On 12/18/23 10:52, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> On 12/16/23 04:48, [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
>>
>> This reverts commit 450e41e783bfa69e4f9d6c80f6bcb01147d5cfe1.
>>
>> If a packet has to be tunnelled to another node and if the physical
>> interface used for tunnelling has lower MTU than the packet or
>> if there is a route exception with a lower MTU, then the geneve
>> kernel module generates an ICMP need frag packet.  This packet
>> was getting dropped since the metadata had to be swapped.
>> The commit [1] did exactly that and fixed the issue.
>> But it has 2 issues -
>>   1. It introduced a regression for the scenario when an ICMP need frag
>>      packet generated outside of OVN has to be tunnelled and delivered
>>      to the destination VM/pod.  These ICMP need frag packets are now
>>      dropped.
>>   2. If the logical switches has ACLs or load balancers configured then
>>      these icmp need frag packets are dropped as they are not sent to
>>      the correct zone.
>>
>> Its better to revert until we find a proper solution for the original
>> issue.
> 
> I agree, it sounds good to me.
> 
>>
>> [1] - 450e41e783bf("ovn: add geneve PMTUD support")
> 
> This should actually be:
> 
> Fixes: 450e41e783bf ("ovn: add geneve PMTUD support")
> 
> With that fixed up:
> Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> 

I forgot, sorry.  To simplify our downstream process it would be great
if you could add:

Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-216

Thanks again!

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
>> ---

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