[PATCH 0/4] net-next: dsa: fix flow dissection

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Thu Aug 10 01:10:27 PDT 2017



On 10/08/17 08:42, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 22:52 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
>> Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2017 14:41:15 +0200
>>
>>> RPS and probably other kernel features are currently broken on some if not
>>> all DSA devices. The root cause of this is that skb_hash will call the
>>> flow_dissector. At this point the skb still contains the magic switch
>>> header and the skb->protocol field is not set up to the correct 802.3
>>> value yet. By the time the tag specific code is called, removing the header
>>> and properly setting the protocol an invalid hash is already set. In the
>>> case of the mt7530 this will result in all flows always having the same
>>> hash.
>>>
>>> Changes since RFC:
>>> * use a callback instead of static values
>>> * add cover letter
>> Series applied, thanks.
> Is this related ?
>
> net/core/flow_dissector.c: In function '__skb_flow_dissect':
> net/core/flow_dissector.c:448:18: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'dsa_ptr'
>      ops = skb->dev->dsa_ptr->tag_ops;
>                    ^
> make[3]: *** [net/core/flow_dissector.o] Error 1
>
>
Hi Eric,

I have just sent the fix for this compile error

     John



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