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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: markmc@...hat.com Cc: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, jamesclhuang@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: skb_segment() questions From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:50:45 +0100 > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 23:39 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> > > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:07:01 +0800 > > > > > gso: Fix support for linear packets > > > > > > When GRO/frag_list support was added to GSO, I made an error > > > which broke the support for segmenting linear GSO packets (GSO > > > packets are normally non-linear in the payload). > > > > > > These days most of these packets are constructed by the tun > > > driver, which prefers to allocate linear memory if possible. > > > This is fixed in the latest kernel, but for 2.6.29 and earlier > > > it is still the norm. > > > > > > Therefore this bug causes failures with GSO when used with tun > > > in 2.6.29. > > > > > > Reported-by: James Huang <jamesclhuang@...il.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> > > > > Applied, thanks. > > This is needed in -stable too, fwiw. Fixes e.g. virtio guest->remote > with 2.6.29 host: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/490266 I know, I'll queue it up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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