From: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:08:21 +0200
> similarly to what has been done with commit 9d149045b3c0 ("geneve: change
> from tx_error to tx_dropped on missing metadata"), avoid reporting errors
> to userspace in case the kernel doesn't find any tunnel information for a
> skb that is going to be transmitted: an increase of tx_dropped is enough.
>
> tested with the following script:
>
> # for t in ip6gre ip6gretap ip6erspan; do
> > ip link add dev gre6-test0 type $t external
> > ip address add dev gre6-test0 2001:db8::1/64
> > ip link set dev gre6-test0 up
> > sleep 30
> > ip -s -j link show dev gre6-test0 | jq \
> > '.[0].stats64.tx | {"errors": .errors, "dropped": .dropped}'
> > ip link del dev gre6-test0
> > done
>
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <ji...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com>
Applied.
