Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 6 authors, 2013-06-18

Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix kernel crash with macvtap on top of LRO

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-06 23:35:12
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On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 01:02 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
At the moment, macvtap crashes are observed if macvtap is attached
to an interface with LRO enabled.
The crash in question is BUG() in macvtap_skb_to_vnet_hdr.
This happens because several drivers set gso_size but not gso_type
in incoming skbs.
The following patches fix this for
Additionally, cbf1de72324a8105ddcc3d9ce9acbc613faea17e is required
to fix this for broadcom - would it make sense to cherry-pick
this patch into 3.8?

I tested that the patch fixes the crash for ixgbe but
don't have qlogic hardware to fix.  I also only tested TCP.

Feedback wellcome.
If we want to allow forwarding from LRO then net/ipv4/inet_lro.c also
needs to set gso_type.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
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