linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:19:36 -0800
From:	Vijay Pandurangan <vijayp@...ayp.ca>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Evan Jones <ej@...njones.ca>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
	Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.

Just as a followup, I wrote a short blog detailing the bug and our
resolution: (https://twitter.com/vijayp/status/697837808417779716)

Thanks again for your help in guiding us through our first kernel
patch. This was a great experience!

direct link: https://medium.com/vijay-pandurangan/linux-kernel-bug-delivers-corrupt-tcp-ip-data-to-mesos-kubernetes-docker-containers-4986f88f7a19#.aymvnbaa8

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Vijay Pandurangan <vijayp@...ayp.ca> wrote:
>> Cool, thanks! I see it in the -stable queue. Is there anything else I need
>> to do to help with getting this into main or backporting?  Happy to pitch in
>> if I can be helpful.
>>
>
> DaveM usually just backports it to a few recent stable tree, if you want
> to backport further, for example 3.14, you probably need to send
> the commit ID to Greg KH.
>
> Thanks.