[ovs-dev] [patch v3 2/2] conntrack: Exclude l2 padding in 'conn_key_extract()'.

Vishal Deep Ajmera vishal.deep.ajmera at ericsson.com
Sat Feb 2 04:56:33 UTC 2019


> 
> 'conn_key_extract()' in userspace conntrack is including L2
> (Ethernet) pad bytes for both L3 and L4 sizes. One problem is any packet with
> non-zero L2 padding can incorrectly fail L4 checksum validation.
> 
> This patch fixes conn_key_extract() by ignoring L2 pad bytes.
> 

Thanks Darrell for the patch. It looks fine. Can we get this in for upcoming OVS release ? 
Also need a backport till OVS branch v2.6 if possible.

Warm Regards,
Vishal Ajmera


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