Commit 68622342 authored Sep 07, 2012 by Chema Gonzalez Committed by David S. Miller Sep 08, 2012

net: small bug on rxhash calculation



In the current rxhash calculation function, while the
sorting of the ports/addrs is coherent (you get the
same rxhash for packets sharing the same 4-tuple, in
both directions), ports and addrs are sorted
independently. This implies packets from a connection
between the same addresses but crossed ports hash to
the same rxhash.

For example, traffic between A=S:l and B=L:s is hashed
(in both directions) from {L, S, {s, l}}. The same
rxhash is obtained for packets between C=S:s and D=L:l.

This patch ensures that you either swap both addrs and ports,
or you swap none. Traffic between A and B, and traffic
between C and D, get their rxhash from different sources
({L, S, {l, s}} for A<->B, and {L, S, {s, l}} for C<->D)

The patch is co-written with Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Chema Gonzalez <chema@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 777bf135

net/core/dev.c

+6 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2647,15 +2647,16 @@ void __skb_get_rxhash(struct sk_buff *skb)
		if (!skb_flow_dissect(skb, &keys))
		return;

		if (keys.ports) {
		if ((__force u16)keys.port16[1] < (__force u16)keys.port16[0])
		swap(keys.port16[0], keys.port16[1]);
		if (keys.ports)
		skb->l4_rxhash = 1;
		}

		/* get a consistent hash (same value on both flow directions) */
		if ((__force u32)keys.dst < (__force u32)keys.src)
		if (((__force u32)keys.dst < (__force u32)keys.src) \|\|
		(((__force u32)keys.dst == (__force u32)keys.src) &&
		((__force u16)keys.port16[1] < (__force u16)keys.port16[0]))) {
		swap(keys.dst, keys.src);
		swap(keys.port16[0], keys.port16[1]);
		}

		hash = jhash_3words((__force u32)keys.dst,
		(__force u32)keys.src,

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