On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 10:41:31AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> This reverts commit 71130f29979c7c7956b040673e6b9d5643003176.
>
> In commit 71130f29979c ("vxlan: fix tos value before xmit") we want to
> make sure the tos value are filtered by RT_TOS() based on RFC1349.
>
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
> | PRECEDENCE | TOS | MBZ |
> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>
> But RFC1349 has been obsoleted by RFC2474. The new DSCP field defined like
>
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
> | DS FIELD, DSCP | ECN FIELD |
> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>
> So with
>
> IPTOS_TOS_MASK 0x1E
> RT_TOS(tos) ((tos)&IPTOS_TOS_MASK)
>
> the first 3 bits DSCP info will get lost.
>
> To take all the DSCP info in xmit, we should revert the patch and just push
> all tos bits to ip_tunnel_ecn_encap(), which will handling ECN field later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
I guess an explicit
Fixes: 71130f29979c ("vxlan: fix tos value before xmit").
tag would help the -stable maintainers.
Apart from that,
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <gna...@redhat.com>
