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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:12:14 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     toke@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] sched: Fix qdisc interactions exposed by using
 sch_cake as a leaf qdisc

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Date: Wed,  9 Jan 2019 17:09:40 +0100

> This series fixes a couple of issues exposed by running sch_cake as a
> leaf qdisc in an HFSC tree, which were discovered and reported by Pete
> Heist. The interaction between CAKE's GSO splitting and the parent
> qdisc's notion of its own queue length could cause queue stalls. While
> investigating the report, I also noticed that several qdiscs would
> dereference the skb pointer after dequeue, which is potentially
> problematic since the GSO splitting code also frees the original skb.
> 
> See the individual patches in the series for details.

Series applied.