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

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:18:14 -0700
From:	Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Wolfgang Walter <linux@...m.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the
 forwarding path

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:05 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ok, will submit a separate patch for 'net' soon.

Thanks,

Jerry

>
> Thanks.
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