netdev - Re: udp: Fix bogus UFO packet generation

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Message-Id: <20100621.135750.246543129.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udp: Fix bogus UFO packet generation

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:15:30 +0300

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:52:25PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Hi:
>> 
>> udp: Fix bogus UFO packet generation
>> 
>> It has been reported that the new UFO software fallback path
>> fails under certain conditions with NFS.  I tracked the problem
>> down to the generation of UFO packets that are smaller than the
>> MTU.  The software fallback path simply discards these packets.
>> 
>> This patch fixes the problem by not generating such packets on
>> the UFO path.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> FWIW
> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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