Subject: Re: Stable request for 5882a07c72093d

From: Dave Chiluk <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:35:43 -0500

On 06/23/2014 11:18 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 10:56 -0500, Dave Chiluk wrote:
>> Commit 5882a07c72093dc3a18e2d2b129fb200686bb6ee remedies a BUG_ON in
>> skb_segment.  This is hit reliably in clouds that are using openvswitch for
>> network capabilities (which is the default network used by Openstack) on
>> machines that have gso offload capabilities.  
>>
>> This has already been reported multiple times to Canonical in numerous
>> openstack clouds.  The fix has been integrated and tested in those clouds, and
>> has been show to resolve their issues.
>>
>> Please include this patch for stable release.
>>
>> Thank you, 
>> Dave Chiluk
>>
>> The patch follows for convenience.
>> --
> 
> Both original commit and your request lack the bug origin.
> 
> I wish bug submissions are more explicit in this regard, using
> 
> Fixes: sha1-12digits ("title")
> 
> It would save a lot of time for stable teams, and ease future bug
> hunting as well.
> 
> 
According to the initial thread, Wei-Chun determined it originated with
19acc327258a.  It has existed since 3.10-rc1.

Fixes: 19acc327258a ("gso: Handle Trans-Ether-Bridging protocol in
skb_network_protocol()")