netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gre: Set inner mac header in gro complete

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:57:21 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, linux@...m.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gre: Set inner mac header in gro complete

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 09:30 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Set the inner mac header to point to the GRE payload when
> doing GRO. This is needed if we proceed to send the packet
> through GRE GSO which now uses the inner mac header instead
> of inner network header to determine the length of encapsulation
> headers.
> 
> Reported-by: Wolfgang Walter <linux@...m.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
> ---

Please Tom, add in your bug fixes something to ease backports.

Fixes: 14051f0452a2 ("gre: Use inner mac length when computing tunnel length")



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