netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel ethernet drivers

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:31:08 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel ethernet 
	drivers

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:27, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:24:45 -0800
>
>> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
>>
>> Found this problem when testing IPv6 from a KVM guest to a remote
>> host via e1000e device on the host.
>> The following patch fixes the check for IPv6 GSO packet in Intel
>> ethernet drivers to use skb_is_gso_v6(). SKB_GSO_DODGY is also set
>> when packets are forwarded from a guest.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
>
> This is definitely net-2.6 material, the bug definitely exists
> there and besides the ixgbevf bit, this patch applies cleanly
> to net-2.6 as well.
>
> Please spin two patches, one which gets everything in net-2.6
> and one which hits ixgbevf in net-next-2.6
>
> Thanks.
> --

Thanks Dave, I will work up the two patches now.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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