netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the forwarding path

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Message-Id: <20140714.150513.1524175237353581279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hkchu@...gle.com
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, linux@...m.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the
 forwarding path

From: "H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkchu@...gle.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:46:20 -0700

> From: Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
> 
> Fixed a bug that was introduced by my GRE-GRO patch
> (bf5a755f5e9186406bbf50f4087100af5bd68e40 net-gre-gro: Add GRE
> support to the GRO stack) that breaks the forwarding path
> because various GSO related fields were not set. The bug will
> cause on the egress path either the GSO code to fail, or a
> GRE-TSO capable (NETIF_F_GSO_GRE) NICs to choke. The following
> fix has been tested for both cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>

As a regression fix, this should be targetted at 'net' rather than
'net-next' so I can queue it up for -stable too.

Thanks.
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