Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: Correct tos value in collect_md mode

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> On 14 Jun 2017, at 1:28 PM, Peter Dawson <petedaws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:54:31 +0800
> äæå <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Changes since v2:
>>> * mask key->tos with RT_TOS() suggested by Daniel
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> Can you help me understand the rationale for this change? Is there are bug introduced by dsfield = ip6_tclass(key->label); ?
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> The RT_TOS masks out 4bits of the 8bit tos field in accordance with RFC1349 (obsoleted by RFC2474). IPv6 does not have a TOS field. So it dosen't make sense to apply a TOS value to the outer header of an IPv6 tunnel.
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Hi, Peter

Here the tos also means Traffic Class in IPv6, see the define in struct ip_tunnel_key:

u8          tos;        /* TOS for IPv4, TC for IPv6 */

RT_TOS mask is suggested by Daniel, please refer to the implement in vxlan or geneve code:

fl6.flowlabel = ip6_make_flowinfo(RT_TOS(tos), label);

Thanks.