netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: Set ip_summed correctly for page buffers passed to GRO

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Message-Id: <20091028.034401.179608358.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: Set ip_summed correctly for page buffers
 passed to GRO

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:50:57 +0000

> Page buffers containing packets with an incorrect checksum or using a
> protocol not handled by hardware checksum offload were previously not
> passed to LRO.  The conversion to GRO changed this, but did not set
> the ip_summed value accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.

> This affects 2.6.31 and seems like a candidate for a stable update.

Queued up for -stable, thanks.
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