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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:54:02 +0100 From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@...ra2net.com> To: Wolfgang Walter <linux@...m.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com> Subject: Re: [bisected] xfrm: TCP connection initiating PMTU discovery stalls on v3.12+ On Monday, 8. December 2014 23:20:42 Wolfgang Walter wrote: > Am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014, 05:26:25 schrieb Eric Dumazet: > > On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 13:09 +0100, Wolfgang Walter wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > as reverting this patch fixes this rather annoying problem: is it > > > dangerous to revert it as a workaround until the root cause is found? > > > > Unfortunately no, this patch fixes a serious issue. > > > > We need to find the root cause of your problem instead of trying to work > > around it. > > I only wanted to use it as local workaround here. > > > I looked a bit at at code. I'm not familiar with the network code, though > :-). If it helps, I'm running the reverted patch on five production boxes hitherto without a hiccup. As far as I understood the original commit message, some packet counters might me wrong without it. @Eric: What could possibly go wrong(tm)? :) Of course a real fix is preferred over this band-aid. Cheers, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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