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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2014-02-13 23:09:12 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-13 17:17:02 -0500
commitfe6cc55f3a9a053482a76f5a6b2257cee51b4663 (patch)
tree70617e150766dea911320b3bb06bca5642c340a0 /include
parentd206940319c41df4299db75ed56142177bb2e5f6 (diff)
net: ip, ipv6: handle gso skbs in forwarding path
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner reported problems when the forwarding link path has a lower mtu than the incoming one if the inbound interface supports GRO. Given: Host <mtu1500> R1 <mtu1200> R2 Host sends tcp stream which is routed via R1 and R2. R1 performs GRO. In this case, the kernel will fail to send ICMP fragmentation needed messages (or pkt too big for ipv6), as GSO packets currently bypass dstmtu checks in forward path. Instead, Linux tries to send out packets exceeding the mtu. When locking route MTU on Host (i.e., no ipv4 DF bit set), R1 does not fragment the packets when forwarding, and again tries to send out packets exceeding R1-R2 link mtu. This alters the forwarding dstmtu checks to take the individual gso segment lengths into account. For ipv6, we send out pkt too big error for gso if the individual segments are too big. For ipv4, we either send icmp fragmentation needed, or, if the DF bit is not set, perform software segmentation and let the output path create fragments when the packet is leaving the machine. It is not 100% correct as the error message will contain the headers of the GRO skb instead of the original/segmented one, but it seems to work fine in my (limited) tests. Eric Dumazet suggested to simply shrink mss via ->gso_size to avoid sofware segmentation. However it turns out that skb_segment() assumes skb nr_frags is related to mss size so we would BUG there. I don't want to mess with it considering Herbert and Eric disagree on what the correct behavior should be. Hannes Frederic Sowa notes that when we would shrink gso_size skb_segment would then also need to deal with the case where SKB_MAX_FRAGS would be exceeded. This uses sofware segmentation in the forward path when we hit ipv4 non-DF packets and the outgoing link mtu is too small. Its not perfect, but given the lack of bug reports wrt. GRO fwd being broken this is a rare case anyway. Also its not like this could not be improved later once the dust settles. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index f589c9af8cbf..3ebbbe7b6d05 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -2916,5 +2916,22 @@ static inline bool skb_head_is_locked(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
return !skb->head_frag || skb_cloned(skb);
}
+
+/**
+ * skb_gso_network_seglen - Return length of individual segments of a gso packet
+ *
+ * @skb: GSO skb
+ *
+ * skb_gso_network_seglen is used to determine the real size of the
+ * individual segments, including Layer3 (IP, IPv6) and L4 headers (TCP/UDP).
+ *
+ * The MAC/L2 header is not accounted for.
+ */
+static inline unsigned int skb_gso_network_seglen(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ unsigned int hdr_len = skb_transport_header(skb) -
+ skb_network_header(skb);
+ return hdr_len + skb_gso_transport_seglen(skb);
+}
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_SKBUFF_H */