netdev - Re: STABLE: net: reduce skb_warn_bad

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Message-ID: <1501305772.1876.0.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:22:52 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     salyzyn@...roid.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: STABLE: net: reduce skb_warn_bad_offload() noise

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 12:30 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:29:57 -0700
> 
> > Please backport the upstream patch to the stable trees (including
> > 3.10.y, 3.18.y, 4.4.y and 4.9.y):
> > 
> > b2504a5dbef3305ef41988ad270b0e8ec289331c net: reduce
> > skb_warn_bad_offload() noise
> > 
> > Impacting performance or creating unnecessary alarm, and will result
> > in kernel panic for panic_on_warn configuration.
> 
> Yeah this is fine.

If you do so, also backport 6e7bc478c9a006c701c14476ec9d389a484b4864
("net: skb_needs_check() accepts CHECKSUM_NONE for tx")