netdev - RE: mpd client timeouts (bisected) 2.6.35-rc3

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:16:56 +0800
From:	"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	"Fastabend, John R" <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"markus@...ppelsdorf.de" <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: RE: mpd client timeouts (bisected) 2.6.35-rc3

It fixed the aim7/specjbb2005 issues! 

Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>


Regards! 
Alex  

>
>Needed to set the wcard bit in copy_skb_header otherwise it will not be cleared
>when called from skb_clone.  Which then hits the loopback device gets pushed
>into the rx path and is eventually dropped. The following patch fixes this.
>Hopefully, this is easy and fast enough for you Dave.
>
>
>[PATCH] net: fix deliver_no_wcard regression on loopback device
>
>deliver_no_wcard is not being set in skb_copy_header.
>In the skb_cloned case it is not being cleared and
>may cause the skb to be dropped when the loopback device
>pushes it back up the stack.
>
>Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
>---
>
>  net/core/skbuff.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
>index 9f07e74..bcf2fa3 100644
>--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
>+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
>@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static void __copy_skb_header(struct sk_buff *new, const
>struct sk_buff *old)
>  	new->ip_summed		= old->ip_summed;
>  	skb_copy_queue_mapping(new, old);
>  	new->priority		= old->priority;
>+	new->deliver_no_wcard	= old->deliver_no_wcard;
>  #if defined(CONFIG_IP_VS) || defined(CONFIG_IP_VS_MODULE)
>  	new->ipvs_property	= old->ipvs_property;
>  #endif
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