netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso

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Date:   Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jianfeng.tan@...ux.alibaba.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso

From: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@...ux.alibaba.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:41:27 +0000

> When we use raw socket as the vhost backend, a packet from virito with
> gso offloading information, cannot be sent out in later validaton at
> xmit path, as we did not set correct skb->protocol which is further used
> for looking up the gso function.
> 
> To fix this, we set this field according to virito hdr information.
> 
> Fixes: e858fae2b0b8f4 ("virtio_net: use common code for virtio_net_hdr and skb GSO conversion")
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@...ux.alibaba.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.