From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] Fix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel ethernet drivers Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:27:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100123.012723.129767377.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100123092430.11188.13968.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sri@us.ibm.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50658 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753838Ab0AWJ1L (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:27:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100123092430.11188.13968.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:24:45 -0800 > From: Sridhar Samudrala > > Found this problem when testing IPv6 from a KVM guest to a remote > host via e1000e device on the host. > The following patch fixes the check for IPv6 GSO packet in Intel > ethernet drivers to use skb_is_gso_v6(). SKB_GSO_DODGY is also set > when packets are forwarded from a guest. > > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher This is definitely net-2.6 material, the bug definitely exists there and besides the ixgbevf bit, this patch applies cleanly to net-2.6 as well. Please spin two patches, one which gets everything in net-2.6 and one which hits ixgbevf in net-next-2.6 Thanks.