Re: [PATCH v2] openvswitch: Fix L4 checksum handling when dealing with IP fragments

From: Pravin Shelar
Date: Mon Aug 03 2015 - 13:14:06 EST


On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Glenn Griffin <ggriffin.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> openvswitch modifies the L4 checksum of a packet when modifying
> the ip address. When an IP packet is fragmented only the first
> fragment contains an L4 header and checksum. Prior to this change
> openvswitch would modify all fragments, modifying application data
> in non-first fragments, causing checksum failures in the
> reassembled packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Griffin <ggriffin.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch needs to be backported to stable branches.

Thanks.
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