netdev - Re: [STABLE 2.6.32 PATCH] net: release dst entry while cache-hot for GSO case too

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Date:	Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:47:41 +0300
From:	"avagin@...il.com" <avagin@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	mjt@....msk.ru, avagin@...nvz.org, stable@...nel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, krkumar2@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [STABLE 2.6.32 PATCH] net: release dst entry while cache-hot
 for GSO case too

Hi Greg,

This patch is acked by David S. Miller. Greg, maybe you can commit it?

On 10/26/2010 10:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:30:52 +0200
>
>> Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 20:19 +0400, Andrew Vagin a écrit :
>>> On 10/11/2010 07:59 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:46:49 +0200
>>>>
>>>>> This patch was an optimization, not a bug fix.
>>>> Right, this has no business going into 2.6.32-stable at all.
>>> This is bug fix. Now nobody drops dst in case gso and veth, because the
>>> commit 60df914e295a21a223e43a7ee01e0c73c64dd111 deletes skb_dst_drop
>>> from the veth.c. We should commit my patch or revert commit 60df914e.
>>>
>>> We have two bug reports:
>>>
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142104.html
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634
>>>
>>> Taylan verified that the patch really fix his bug.
>>
>> Now that makes sense ;)
>
> In case there is any doubt about this -stable patch submission:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller<davem@...emloft.net>

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