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. Michael S. Tsirkin (2): ixgbe: fix gso type qlcnic: set gso_type drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- MST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
