netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] GSO: Provide software checksum of tunneled UDP fragmentation offload

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:24:52 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aduyck@...antis.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] GSO: Provide software checksum of tunneled
 UDP fragmentation offload

From: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:46:21 -0800

> On reviewing the code I realized that GRE and UDP tunnels could cause a
> kernel panic if we used GSO to segment a large UDP frame that was sent
> through the tunnel with an outer checksum and hardware offloads were not
> available.
> 
> In order to correct this we need to update the feature flags that are
> passed to the skb_segment function so that in the event of UDP
> fragmentation being requested for the inner header the segmentation
> function will correctly generate the checksum for the payload if we cannot
> segment the outer header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>

Applied, thanks Alex.