netdev - Re: [ISSUE][4.20.6] mlx5 and checksum failures

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Message-ID: <067294dc4721cd52b87ccc579033b59336588bdd.camel@mellanox.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:18:55 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "ian.kumlien@...il.com" <ian.kumlien@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ISSUE][4.20.6] mlx5 and checksum failures

On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 17:16 +0100, Ian Kumlien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm hitting an issue that i think is fixed by the following patch,
> i haven't verified it yet - but it looks like it should go on the
> stable queue(?)
> 
> (And yes, I did look, and couldn't find it ;))
> 

Yes, i couldn't find it neither,

It should have been queued up for 4.18 by now.
Dave said he will take care of it, maybe he just forgot or something.
since the patch needed some extra care..

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1027837/

Dave, Is there anything i can do here ?

Thanks,
Saeed.

> commit e8c8b53ccaff568fef4c13a6ccaf08bf241aa01a
> Author: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Date:   Mon Dec 3 22:14:04 2018 -0800
> 
>     net/mlx5e: Force CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for short ethernet frames