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On 11/12/2014, 10:03 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 10:12 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 3d0ad09412ffe00c9afa201d01effdb6023d09b4 ]
>>
>> IPv6 does not allow fragmentation by routers, so there is no
>> fragmentation ID in the fixed header. UFO for IPv6 requires the
>> ID to be passed separately, but there is no provision for this in
>> the virtio net protocol.
>>
>> Until recently our software implementation of UFO/IPv6 generated
>> a new ID, but this was a bug. Now we will use ID=0 for any
>> UFO/IPv6 packet passed through a tap, which is even worse.
>>
>> Unfortunately there is no distinction between UFO/IPv4 and v6
>> features, so disable UFO on taps and virtio_net completely until
>> we have a proper solution.
> [...]
>
> Please drop this patch for 3.14 and 3.17. It causes problems for
> migration of VMs and we're probably going to revert part of this.
> The following patch ("drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment
> idents for virtio UFO packets") might no longer apply, in which
> case you can drop that as well until we have this sorted out
> upstream.
The same holds for 3.12, I suppose?
thanks,
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js
suse labs
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