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 312a11a..f1fb7a5 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;
}--
1.8.1