Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-05-01 14:06:36
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-05-01 14:06:36
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:02:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
My understanding is that at the points I'm adding the check, we're only considering received skbs and gso_size will only be set if LRO was used.
Unfortunately that's not the case. The forwarding path can and does occur for GSO packets sent from other guests. The obvious case would be a GSO packet from a guest forwarded by the host (as opposed to bridged) to the outside world. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt