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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:26:32 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:04:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:11:01 +1000
> 
> > [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
> > 
> > This bug was unknowingly fixed the GSO patches (or rather, its effect was
> > unknown at the time).
> > 
> > Thanks to Marco Berizzi's persistence which is documented in the thread
> > "ipsec tunnel asymmetrical mtu", we now know that it can have highly
> > non-obvious symptoms.
> > 
> > What happens is that uninitialised uso_size fields can cause packets to
> > be incorrectly identified as UFO, which means that it does not get
> > fragmented even if it's over the MTU.
> > 
> > The fix is simple enough.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Queued to -stable, thanks.

greg k-h