[Cerowrt-devel] Problem with queuing vlan tagged packets after migration from 3.16.0 to 4.9.0

[Dave Taht]

Perhaps this has been a source of some subtle bugs in sqm?

Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 11:46 AM Bartek Kois <bartek.kois at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> Yes it did work since I remember (like around 2.4.x) and it changed
>> since I moved from Debian 8 to 9. I would appreciate fixing that in the
>> future beacuse it is essential for queueing traffic on the routers, but
>> the question is why these filters don`t work in that case:
>>
>>      tc filter add dev $LAN_ETH parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 4 u32 match
>> u32 0x0a000c08 0xffffffff at 20 classid 1:2001      # for 10.0.12.8 ip
>> address
>>      tc filter add dev $LAN_ETH parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 4 u32 match
>> u32 0x0a000c09 0xffffffff at 20 classid 1:2002      # for 10.0.12.9 ip
>> address
>>      tc filter add dev $LAN_ETH parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 4 u32 match
>> u32 0x0a000c10 0xffffffff at 20 classid 1:2003      # for 10.0.12.10 ip
>> address
>>
>> I`ve changed "at 16" which works without vlan tags to "at 20" to take
>> vlan tag into account.
>
> Yeah, this confirms my speculation.
>
> The problem is essentially a design flaw of u32 filter, the IP header
> and TCP header offsets are never fixed, for example VLAN tagging and
> IP options. What's more, it is not easy for user-space to learn the offset
> for different packets as it requires to parse into each packets.
>
> I don't know whether we can fix this either, VLAN call path probably
> already makes assumptions on the current skb->data position, if
> we "fix" it for u32, it would probably break other things.