netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix setting csum_start in tcp_gso

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Message-ID: <20140625141052.GA1096@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:10:52 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix setting csum_start in tcp_gso_segment

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:17:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > It looks like a likely culprit is that SKB_GSO_CB()->csum_start is
 > > not set correctly when doing non-scatter gather. We are using
 > > offset as opposed to doffset.
 > >
 > > Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > 
 > DaveJ, I think you triggered this in five minutes on your box, and I
 > don't recall seeing anybody else reporting the oops (and google
 > doesn't find anything in the last month). So it's presumably somewhat
 > hw-specific. Does this fix the problem?

It's survived routing ~1GB of packets overnight, so I'd call this good.

thanks Tom.

	Dave

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