[PATCH v2 net-next 4/5] net: Add IPv6 flow label to flow_keys
From: Tom Herbert <hidden>
Date: 2015-05-12 03:27:55
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
In flow_dissector set the flow label in flow_keys for IPv6. This also removes the shortcircuiting of flow dissection when a non-zero label is present, the flow label can be considered to provide additional entropy for a hash. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <redacted> --- include/net/flow_keys.h | 3 ++- net/core/flow_dissector.c | 15 +-------------- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/flow_keys.h b/include/net/flow_keys.h
index 14298e2..906d47a 100644
--- a/include/net/flow_keys.h
+++ b/include/net/flow_keys.h@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ struct flow_keys { __be16 n_proto; u8 ip_proto; u8 padding; - u32 vlan_id:12; + u32 vlan_id:12, + flow_label:20; union { __be32 ports;
diff --git a/net/core/flow_dissector.c b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
index 148b989..de71e42 100644
--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ ip: case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): { const struct ipv6hdr *iph; struct ipv6hdr _iph; - __be32 flow_label; ipv6: iph = __skb_header_pointer(skb, nhoff, sizeof(_iph), data, hlen, &_iph);
@@ -118,19 +117,7 @@ ipv6: iph_to_flow_copy_v6addrs(flow, iph); - flow_label = ip6_flowlabel(iph); - if (flow_label) { - /* Awesome, IPv6 packet has a flow label so we can - * use that to represent the ports without any - * further dissection. - */ - flow->n_proto = proto; - flow->ip_proto = ip_proto; - flow->ports = flow_label; - flow->thoff = (u16)nhoff; - - return true; - } + flow->flow_label = ntohl(ip6_flowlabel(iph)); break; }
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