netdev - Re: mpd client timeouts (bisected) 2.6.35-rc3

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Date:	Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Cc:	markus@...ppelsdorf.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com,
	alex.shi@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...el.com
Subject: Re: mpd client timeouts (bisected) 2.6.35-rc3

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:36:30 -0700

> Needed to set the wcard bit in copy_skb_header otherwise it will not
> be cleared when called from skb_clone.  Which then hits the loopback
> device gets pushed into the rx path and is eventually dropped. The
> following patch fixes this. Hopefully, this is easy and fast enough
> for you Dave.
> 
> 
> [PATCH] net: fix deliver_no_wcard regression on loopback device
> 
> deliver_no_wcard is not being set in skb_copy_header.
> In the skb_cloned case it is not being cleared and
> may cause the skb to be dropped when the loopback device
> pushes it back up the stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Applied, but your email client corrupted this patch in many
ways.  Please correct this for next time, thanks.
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