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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet
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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:39 +0000

> The packet parser used in the TX data path for locating checksum
> fields can lose synchronisation with the TX queue manager when
> handling packets that look like IPv4 but are too short (17-32 bytes).
> Work around this by padding to 33 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Applied.