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net: preserve IP control block during GSO segmentation
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:21:46 +0000 (15:21 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:25:51 +0000 (11:25 -0800)
commitd37c1234ee6d8ba1706b8c24bbd6db6569f61154
tree5cb09756710ef9ead285f2a134987c77939f927d
parent84775578202e13a4f0973dc41f993ddab323fc23
net: preserve IP control block during GSO segmentation

[ Upstream commit 9207f9d45b0ad071baa128e846d7e7ed85016df3 ]

Skb_gso_segment() uses skb control block during segmentation.
This patch adds 32-bytes room for previous control block which
will be copied into all resulting segments.

This patch fixes kernel crash during fragmenting forwarded packets.
Fragmentation requires valid IP CB in skb for clearing ip options.
Also patch removes custom save/restore in ovs code, now it's redundant.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALYGNiP-0MZ-FExV2HutTvE9U-QQtkKSoE--KN=JQE5STYsjAA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/core/dev.c
net/ipv4/ip_output.c
net/openvswitch/datapath.c
net/xfrm/xfrm_output.c