netdev - Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:24:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, patrik.flykt@...el.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:34:11 +0100

> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 17:41 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
>> OK, finally I got it. After 3 days of hardcore intelligent bisecting
>>         I've found out that tethering in 3.5 works for me if I revert
>> these 2
>>         patches:
>>         
>>             56138f5 iwlwifi: dont pull too much payload in skb head
> 
> I got back to this for a customer running 3.5, and after many failed
> attempts realized that you have to have iptables for this problem to
> actually happen. I reverse-bisected that the *fix* is
> 6caab7b0544e83e6c160b5e80f5a4a7dd69545c7, in 3.7.
> 
> Is there still any stable kernel 3.5/3.6 (or possibly before, though for
> iwlwifi before doesn't matter) that this should be applied to?

I've checked all of 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, and 3.8.x   They all have this
patch applied.

Those are the official stable kernels, everything else is outside of my
realm.
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