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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
