Re: [PATCH net v3] ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash

[David Miller]

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 11:36:05 +0200

> Some of the code paths calculating flow hash for IPv6 use flowlabel member
> of struct flowi6 which, despite its name, encodes both flow label and
> traffic class. If traffic class changes within a TCP connection (as e.g.
> ssh does), ECMP route can switch between path. It's also inconsistent with
> other code paths where ip6_flowlabel() (returning only flow label) is used
> to feed the key.
> 
> Use only flow label everywhere, including one place where hash key is set
> using ip6_flowinfo().
> 
> Fixes: 51ebd3181572 ("ipv6: add support of equal cost multipath (ECMP)")
> Fixes: f70ea018da06 ("net: Add functions to get skb->hash based on flow structures")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: introduce and use an inline helper as suggested by David Ahern
> v3: keep the cast out of the helper to make future cleanup easier

Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.