This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Sun Dec 31 11:13:15 CET 2017

From: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:49:36 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

From: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit 2989ad1ec03021ee6d2193c35414f1d970a243de ]

The assumption that the next header field contains the transport protocol is wrong for IPv6 packets with extension headers. Instead, we should look the inner-most next header field in the buffer. This will fix TSO offload for tunnels over IPv6 with extension headers.

Performance testing: 19.25x improvement, cool! Measuring bandwidth of 16 threads TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tap. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex] TSO: Enabled Before: 4,926.24 Mbps Now : 94,827.91 Mbps

Fixes: b3f63c3d5e2c ("net/mlx5e: Add netdev support for VXLAN tunneling") Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed saeedm@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea struct sk_buff *skb, netdev_features_t features) { + unsigned int offset = 0; struct udphdr *udph; u16 proto; u16 port = 0; @@ -3047,7 +3048,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea proto = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol; break; case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): - proto = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr; + proto = ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &offset, -1, NULL, NULL); break; default: goto out;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from galp@mellanox.com are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-possible-deadlock-of-vxlan-lock.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-prevent-possible-races-in-vxlan-control-flow.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-add-refcount-to-vxlan-structure.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch