Patch "net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Gal Pressman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:49:36 +0200
Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

From: Gal Pressman <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2989ad1ec03021ee6d2193c35414f1d970a243de ]

The assumption that the next header field contains the transport protocol is wrong for IPv6 packets with extension headers. Instead, we should look the inner-most next header field in the buffer. This will fix TSO offload for tunnels over IPv6 with extension headers.

Performance testing: 19.25x improvement, cool! Measuring bandwidth of 16 threads TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tap.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
TSO: Enabled
Before: 4,926.24 Mbps
Now : 94,827.91 Mbps

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea
 						    struct sk_buff *skb,
 						    netdev_features_t features)
 {
+	unsigned int offset = 0;
 	struct udphdr *udph;
 	u16 proto;
 	u16 port = 0;

@@ -3047,7 +3048,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea
 		proto = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol;
 		break;
 	case htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
-		proto = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr;
+		proto = ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &offset, -1, NULL, NULL);
 		break;
 	default:
 		goto out;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-possible-deadlock-of-vxlan-lock.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-prevent-possible-races-in-vxlan-control-flow.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-add-refcount-to-vxlan-structure.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch