From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: herbert@gondor•apana.org.au, netdev@vger•kernel.org, stable@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [stable] [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:26:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717152632.GA4888@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060713.220434.66181695.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:04:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:11:01 +1000
>
> > [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
> >
> > This bug was unknowingly fixed the GSO patches (or rather, its effect was
> > unknown at the time).
> >
> > Thanks to Marco Berizzi's persistence which is documented in the thread
> > "ipsec tunnel asymmetrical mtu", we now know that it can have highly
> > non-obvious symptoms.
> >
> > What happens is that uninitialised uso_size fields can cause packets to
> > be incorrectly identified as UFO, which means that it does not get
> > fragmented even if it's over the MTU.
> >
> > The fix is simple enough.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Queued to -stable, thanks.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 9:11 [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations Herbert Xu
2006-07-14 5:04 ` David Miller
2006-07-17 15:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060717152632.GA4888@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah$(echo .)com \
--cc=davem@davemloft$(echo .)net \
--cc=herbert@gondor$(echo .)apana.org.au \
--cc=netdev@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
--cc=stable@kernel$(echo .)org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox