This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Dec 31 11:13:15 CET 2017
From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:49:36 +0200
Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic
From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2989ad1ec03021ee6d2193c35414f1d970a243de ]
The assumption that the next header field contains the transport
protocol is wrong for IPv6 packets with extension headers.
Instead, we should look the inner-most next header field in the buffer.
This will fix TSO offload for tunnels over IPv6 with extension headers.
Performance testing: 19.25x improvement, cool!
Measuring bandwidth of 16 threads TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tap.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
TSO: Enabled
Before: 4,926.24 Mbps
Now : 94,827.91 Mbps
Fixes: b3f63c3d5e2c ("net/mlx5e: Add netdev support for VXLAN tunneling")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea
struct sk_buff *skb,
netdev_features_t features)
{
+ unsigned int offset = 0;
struct udphdr *udph;
u16 proto;
u16 port = 0;
@@ -3047,7 +3048,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea
proto = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol;
break;
case htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
- proto = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr;
+ proto = ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &offset, -1, NULL, NULL);
break;
default:
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-possible-deadlock-of-vxlan-lock.patch
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-prevent-possible-races-in-vxlan-control-flow.patch
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-add-refcount-to-vxlan-structure.patch
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch