Patch "[PATCH] netvsc: Set maximum GSO size in the right place" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    [PATCH] netvsc: Set maximum GSO size in the right place

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     netvsc-set-maximum-gso-size-in-the-right-place.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ben@decadent.org.uk  Fri Feb 10 22:14:58 2017
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 19:37:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] netvsc: Set maximum GSO size in the right place
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Message-ID: <20170209193734.GB3442@decadent.org.uk>
Content-Disposition: inline

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

Commit a50af86dd49e "netvsc: reduce maximum GSO size" was wrongly
backported to 4.4-stable.  The maximum size needs to be set before the
net device is registered, in netvsc_probe().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -854,7 +854,6 @@ static int netvsc_set_channels(struct ne
 		}
 		goto recover;
 	}
-	netif_set_gso_max_size(net, NETVSC_GSO_MAX_SIZE);
 
  out:
 	netvsc_open(net);
@@ -1142,6 +1141,7 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device
 	nvdev = hv_get_drvdata(dev);
 	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(net, nvdev->num_chn);
 	netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(net, nvdev->num_chn);
+	netif_set_gso_max_size(net, NETVSC_GSO_MAX_SIZE);
 
 	ret = register_netdev(net);
 	if (ret != 0) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@decadent.org.uk are

queue-4.4/netvsc-set-maximum-gso-size-in-the-right-place.patch