On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:04:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:11:01 +1000
> 
> > [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
> > 
> > This bug was unknowingly fixed the GSO patches (or rather, its effect was
> > unknown at the time).
> > 
> > Thanks to Marco Berizzi's persistence which is documented in the thread
> > "ipsec tunnel asymmetrical mtu", we now know that it can have highly
> > non-obvious symptoms.
> > 
> > What happens is that uninitialised uso_size fields can cause packets to
> > be incorrectly identified as UFO, which means that it does not get
> > fragmented even if it's over the MTU.
> > 
> > The fix is simple enough.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Queued to -stable, thanks.

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to