netdev - Re: virtio_net: Set correct gso->hdr

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Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: virtio_net: Set correct gso->hdr_len

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:59:18 +1000

> Hi:
> 
> virtio_net: Set correct gso->hdr_len
> 
> Through a bug in the tun driver, I noticed that virtio_net is
> producing bogus hdr_len values.  In particular, it only includes
> the IP header in the linear area, and excludes the entire TCP
> header.  This causes the TCP header to be copied twice for each
> packet.  (The bug omitted the second copy :)
> 
> This patch corrects this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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