Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash

[Ido Schimmel]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:40:34AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> 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 incosistent 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>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>