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

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Message-ID: <20130323154556.GA3953@hercules>
Date:	Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:45:56 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, patrik.flykt@...el.com,
	Eric Dumazet <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

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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?

The 3.5.y.z extended stable tree already contains this commit as well.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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