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Message-ID: <0d897b58-f4b8-4814-b3f9-5dce0540c81d@heusel.eu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:46:30 +0200
From: Christian Heusel <christian@...sel.eu>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: avladu@...udbasesolutions.com, willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com, 
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, arefev@...mel.ru, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	jasowang@...hat.com, kuba@...nel.org, mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com, 
	regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: drop bad gso csum_start and offset in
 virtio_net_hdr

On 24/08/08 11:52AM, Christian Heusel wrote:
> On 24/08/08 08:38AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Christian Heusel wrote:
> > > On 24/08/07 04:12PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 09:28:29PM +0000, avladu@...udbasesolutions.com wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > > This patch needs to be backported to the stable 6.1.x and 6.64.x branches, as the initial patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e269d79c7d35aa3808b1f3c1737d63dab504ddc8 was backported a few days ago: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/include/linux/virtio_net.h?h=3Dv6.1.103&id=3D5b1997487a3f3373b0f580c8a20b56c1b64b0775
> > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/include/linux/virtio_net.h?h=3Dv6.6.44&id=3D90d41ebe0cd4635f6410471efc1dd71b33e894cf
> > > > 
> > > > Please provide a working backport, the change does not properly
> > > > cherry-pick.
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > > Hey Greg, hey Sasha,
> > > 
> > > this patch also needs backporting to the 6.6.y and 6.10.y series as the
> > > buggy commit was backported to to all three series.
> > 
> > What buggy commit?
> 
> The issue is that commit e269d79c7d35 ("net: missing check virtio")
> introduces a bug which is fixed by 89add40066f9 ("net: drop bad gso
> csum_start and offset in virtio_net_hdr") which it also carries a
> "Fixes:" tag for.
> 
> Therefore it would be good to also get 89add40066f9 backported.
> 
> > And how was this tested, it does not apply cleanly to the trees for me
> > at all.
> 
> I have tested this with the procedure as described in [0]:
> 
>     $ git switch linux-6.10.y
>     $ git cherry-pick -x 89add40066f9ed9abe5f7f886fe5789ff7e0c50e
>     Auto-merging net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
>     [linux-6.10.y fbc0d2bea065] net: drop bad gso csum_start and offset in virtio_net_hdr
>      Author: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
>      Date: Mon Jul 29 16:10:12 2024 -0400
>      3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> This also works for linux-6.6.y, but not for linux-6.1.y, as it fails
> with a merge error there.
> 
> The relevant commit is confirmed to fix the issue in the relevant Githu
> issue here[1]:
> 
>     @marek22k commented
>     > They both fix the problem for me.
> 
> > confused,
> 
> Sorry for the confusion! I hope the above clears things up a little :)
> 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024060624-platinum-ladies-9214@gregkh/
> [1]: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13041#issuecomment-2272326491

Since I didn't hear from anybody so far about the above issue it's a bit
unclear on how to proceed here. I still think that I would make sense to
go with my above suggestion about patching at least 2 out of the 3
stable series where the patch applies cleanly.

	~ Chris

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