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Commit 1b0b0b58 authored by Nick Nunley's avatar Nick Nunley Committed by Tony Nguyen
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ice: Implement flow for IPv6 next header (extension header)

This patch is based on a similar change to i40e by Slawomir Laba:
"i40e: Implement flow for IPv6 next header (extension header)".

When a packet contains an IPv6 header with next header which is
an extension header and not a protocol one, the kernel function
skb_transport_header called with such sk_buff will return a
pointer to the extension header and not to the TCP one.

The above explained call caused a problem with packet processing
for skb with encapsulation for tunnel with ICE_TX_CTX_EIPT_IPV6.
The extension header was not skipped at all.

The ipv6_skip_exthdr function does check if next header of the IPV6
header is an extension header and doesn't modify the l4_proto pointer
if it points to a protocol header value so its safe to omit the
comparison of exthdr and l4.hdr pointers. The ipv6_skip_exthdr can
return value -1. This means that the skipping process failed
and there is something wrong with the packet so it will be dropped.

Fixes: a4e82a81

 ("ice: Add support for tunnel offloads")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Nunley <nicholas.d.nunley@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
parent 29e2d9eb
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