On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 4:54 AM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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!


Thanks.  I applied the patch to main by making the suggested changes
and backported to branch-23.09.
Running the branch-23.06 in CI before applying there.

Numan

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