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From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex-GaUfNO9RBHfsrOwW+9ziJQ@public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:24:53 +0200

> here are two fixes intended for net. The first one fixes the CRC computation
> used to check for broadcast packet duplicates. The wrong result lead to many
> (more than 80%) broadcast packets being dropped and so making the network very
> slow and mostly unusable. Think about all the ARP or DHCP requests not going
> through.
> 
> The second patch fixes a potential race condition, still in the same duplicated
> broadcast check procedure, which can lead to wrong outcomes under certain
> circumstances.

Pulled, thanks.

> I would also like to enqueue patch 1/2 for sending to stable-{3.5/3.6}.

Feel free to submit this to -stable once it hits Linus's tree.

Thanks.