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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL nf] IPVS fixes for v3.17
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:07:59 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:15:14PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> please consider this IPVS fix for v3.17.
> 
> It allows CHECKSUM_PARTIAL to work in conjunction with
> TCP/UDP csum offlad and the tunnel forwarding mechanism
> provided by IPVS.
> 
> I suspect that this problem has existed for as long
> has IPVS has been present in the kernel: some time before
> git epoch of the git history in Linus's tree.
>
> I would like this change considered for -stable.

The generic iptunnel infrastructure is quite recent. For example,
iptunnel_handle_offloads() is available since 3.13. You'll need to
prepare a backport of this for -stable kernels.

[...]
> The following changes since commit d1c85c2ebe7ffe1f1b27846bd1ba0944c513d822:
> 
>   netfilter: HAVE_JUMP_LABEL instead of CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL (2014-08-25 10:45:28 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/ipvs.git tags/ipvs-fixes-for-v3.17

Pulled, thanks.