netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel ethernet drivers

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:27:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel
 ethernet drivers

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:24:45 -0800

> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> 
> Found this problem when testing IPv6 from a KVM guest to a remote
> host via e1000e device on the host.
> The following patch fixes the check for IPv6 GSO packet in Intel
> ethernet drivers to use skb_is_gso_v6(). SKB_GSO_DODGY is also set
> when packets are forwarded from a guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

This is definitely net-2.6 material, the bug definitely exists
there and besides the ixgbevf bit, this patch applies cleanly
to net-2.6 as well.

Please spin two patches, one which gets everything in net-2.6
and one which hits ixgbevf in net-next-2.6

Thanks.
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