netdev - Re: [NET] gso: Fix GSO feature mask in sk_setup

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET] gso: Fix GSO feature mask in sk_setup_caps

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:13:49 +1000

> [NET] gso: Fix GSO feature mask in sk_setup_caps
> 
> This isn't a bug just yet as only TCP uses sk_setup_caps for GSO.
> However, if and when UDP or something else starts using it this is
> likely to cause a problem if we forget to add software emulation
> for it at the same time.
> 
> The problem is that right now we translate GSO emulation to the
> bitmask NETIF_F_GSO_MASK, which includes every protocol, even
> ones that we cannot emulate.
> 
> This patch makes it provide only the ones that we can emulate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Good catch, applied, thanks Herbert.

I don't think it's worth bothering -stable with this one,
agreed?
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