[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/8] gre: Check that the IP header is actually there before using it.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Mar 4 20:07:13 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> GRE is nominally operating at layer 2 but it has some special
> features for IP packets.  This checks that the IP header is present
> before trying to read it.  If it is not there, we just disable the
> special features but still process the packet.

These look like important upstream bug fixes to me.  I would recommend
pushing them upstream soon, so that the upstream authors can apply them
or come up with better versions or tell us why they aren't needed.

Thanks,

Ben.




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