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

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Mar 4 20:20:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

That's my plan.  There are a number of bug fixes and enhancements in this
series that should be pushed upstream time permitting.
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