linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum mask is not set

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Message-ID: <2a80cde6-27d4-46f2-8ad0-b7feefd4764c@jacekk.info>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:37:26 +0200
From: Jacek Kowalski <jacek@...ekk.info>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum
 mask is not set

> Although I do wonder if commit 4051f68318ca9 is backported,
> will this patch (once accepted) end up being backported far enough?

Stable 5.10 (and newer) already has 4051f68318ca9 and ffd24fa2fcc7:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y#n4139
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y&id=8f1e3ad9456935f538c4ba06d2c04f2581ec385f
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y&id=eb5e444fe37d467e54d2945c1293f311ce782f67

In my opinion my patch should be backported as well.

-- 
Best regards,
   Jacek Kowalski