On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:41:11 -0600 Robert Hancock wrote: > Figured I would poke someone to add this patch to the stable queue - I > don't see it in > https://patchwork.kernel.org/bundle/netdev/stable/?state=* right now. > This patch is reported to fix a severe upload speed regression in many > Intel wireless adapters existing since kernel 5.9, as described in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209913
We're actually experimenting with letting Greg take networking patches into stable like he does for every other tree. If the patch doesn't appear in the next stable release please poke stable@ directly. > commit 81a86e1bd8e7060ebba1718b284d54f1238e9bf9 > Author: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > Date: Mon Jan 25 07:09:49 2021 -0800 > > iwlwifi: provide gso_type to GSO packets > > net/core/tso.c got recent support for USO, and this broke iwlfifi > because the driver implemented a limited form of GSO. > > Providing ->gso_type allows for skb_is_gso_tcp() to provide > a correct result. > > Fixes: 3d5b459ba0e3 ("net: tso: add UDP segmentation support") > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Ben Greear <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Ben Greear <[email protected]> > Cc: Luca Coelho <[email protected]> > Cc: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209913 > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
