Re: Fwd: Re: GRO issue with kernel 3.4.94 (icmp fragmentation needed)

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On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> On 02 Jul 22:54, Florian Westphal wrote:
> >
> > Short version:  Since 3.4.92, when forwarding,
> > GRO aggregated packets are no longer forwarded because
> > kernel believes segments exceed path mtu.
> > 
> > This is because kernels pre 3.11 lack
> > 
> > commit 21d1196a35f5686c4323e42a62fdb4b23b0ab4a3
> > Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ipv4: set transport header earlier
> > 
> > [ this commit was already picked up by 3.10.y tree ]
> > 
> > The backport of 895162b1101b3ea5db08ca6822ae9672717efec0
> > exposed this problem.
> > 
> > Original report quoted below.
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> -----
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:05:25 +0200
> > From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: jungwon park <jwpark2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: GRO issue with kernel 3.4.94 (icmp fragmentation needed)
> > 
> > jungwon park <jwpark2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When using the linux router is turned on GRO, router send the 'fragmentation
> > > needed' packets to the sender.
> > 
> > Indeed 8-(
> > 
> > > When I turned off GRO, the router operate normally, and there is no problem.
> > > and with 3.4.91 kernel, the router has no problem.
> > > 
> > > I doubt 'ipv4: ip_forward: fix inverted local_df test' patch.
> > > (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/345509/)
> > > When I revert this patch, the router has no problem.
> > 
> > Can you please cherry-pick following patch on top of vanilla 3.4.92?
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=21d1196a35f5686c4323e42a62fdb4b23b0ab4a3
> > 
> > commit 21d1196a35f5686c4323e42a62fdb4b23b0ab4a3
> > Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ipv4: set transport header earlier
> > 
> > I think that should fix this bug, it should apply cleanly on top of
> > 3.4.y tree.
> > 
> > [ patch is in 3.11, also backported to 3.10.y tree ]
> > 
> > The problem is that, when dealing with GRO packets, we try to determine
> > the size of the individual packets.  To do this, we rely on the
> > transport header.
> > 
> > Unfortunately the transport header is not set for the forward path in 3.4,
> > so we look at the network header instead.
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Any reason this is not included in 3.4.97 or you're planning to queue it
> for .98?

Actually, looking at this, it's a network patch, which needs to go
through the networking maintainer to get merged into a stable kernel
tree.  Please go ask about this on the netdev mailing list and it should
come in to me that way.

thanks,

greg k-h
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