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[Jay Vosburgh <1463911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SRU Justification:

Impact:

	This bug causes issues when ip6tables modules are loaded with IPv6
fragmented packets traversing a bridge.  The extant conntrack processing
will reassemble the IPv6 fragments for netfilter processing, but is
incapable of re-fragmenting these datagrams for subsequent forwarding.
This causes the fragmented IPv6 datagrams to be dropped.

Fix:

	This is resolved by backporting functionality from mainline that
re-fragments the IPv6 datagrams upon bridge egress.

Testcase:

        The patch commit log includes a test case; to summarize:

	A bridge is configured with two ports and interfaces are attached
to these ports.  A traffic source beyond one port generates fragmented
IPv6 datagrams, e.g., ping6 -s 2000, destined for a host beyond the
bridge.

	With ip6tables modules unloaded, the IPv6 fragments will traverse
the bridge.  Loading ip6tables, e.g., "ip6tables -t nat -L", will cause
IPv6 fragmented datagrams to be dropped on the unpatched kernel.

        These datagrams are correctly forwarded with the patch applied.

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Title:
  IPV6 fragmentation and mtu issue

Status in neutron:
  Confirmed
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Confirmed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Fragmented IPv6 packets are REJECTED by ip6tables on compute nodes.
  The traffic is goign through an intra-VM network and the packet loss
  is hurting the system.

  There is a patch for this issue:
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/434957/

  I would like to know is there any bug report or official release date
  for this issue ?

  This is pretty critical for my deployment.

  Thanks in advance,

  BR,

  Gyula

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