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authorAnsis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>2013-09-18 15:29:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-09-19 14:11:15 -0400
commit703133de331a7a7df47f31fb9de51dc6f68a9de8 (patch)
tree0c6c49e15c9461cd3a563d17062a866d2fafd6fa /net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
parent749154aa56b57652a282cbde57a57abc278d1205 (diff)
downloadlinux-703133de331a7a7df47f31fb9de51dc6f68a9de8.tar.bz2
ip: generate unique IP identificator if local fragmentation is allowed
If local fragmentation is allowed, then ip_select_ident() and ip_select_ident_more() need to generate unique IDs to ensure correct defragmentation on the peer. For example, if IPsec (tunnel mode) has to encrypt large skbs that have local_df bit set, then all IP fragments that belonged to different ESP datagrams would have used the same identificator. If one of these IP fragments would get lost or reordered, then peer could possibly stitch together wrong IP fragments that did not belong to the same datagram. This would lead to a packet loss or data corruption. Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
index 000e3d239d64..33d5537881ed 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
* At the moment of writing this notes identifier of IP packets is generated
* to be unpredictable using this code only for packets subjected
* (actually or potentially) to defragmentation. I.e. DF packets less than
- * PMTU in size uses a constant ID and do not use this code (see
- * ip_select_ident() in include/net/ip.h).
+ * PMTU in size when local fragmentation is disabled use a constant ID and do
+ * not use this code (see ip_select_ident() in include/net/ip.h).
*
* Route cache entries hold references to our nodes.
* New cache entries get references via lookup by destination IP address in