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

[Darrell Ball]

Thanks Vishal

Yes, it needs to go back to 2.6; I will be doing some backport patches soon.

Darrell

On 2/1/19, 8:57 PM, "ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org on behalf of Vishal Deep Ajmera" <ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org on behalf of vishal.deep.ajmera at ericsson.com> wrote:

    > 
    > '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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