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 14:52:55 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sri@...ibm.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel
 ethernet drivers

On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 01:27 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

This is presumably suitable for stable as well; if so, please cc
stable@...nel.org.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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