Copying stable instead. .35 has it already, but 32-34 need it.

-Andi

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc Andi)
> 
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:15:50 -0700
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > this person has a -longterm suggestion.
> > 
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:46:06 GMT
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33972] New: Bogus UDP Fragmentation Offload 
> > packet generation
> > 
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33972
> > 
> >            Summary: Bogus UDP Fragmentation Offload packet generation
> >            Product: Networking
> >            Version: 2.5
> >     Kernel Version: 2.6.32.x
> >           Platform: All
> >         OS/Version: Linux
> >               Tree: Mainline
> >             Status: NEW
> >           Severity: high
> >           Priority: P1
> >          Component: IPV4
> >         AssignedTo: [email protected]
> >         ReportedBy: [email protected]
> >         Regression: Yes
> > 
> > 
> > Created an attachment (id=55552)
> >  --> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=55552)
> > udp: Fix bogus UFO packet generation
> > 
> > The new UFO software fallback path fails under certain conditions with NFS 
> > and
> > causes partial connectivity loss due to generation of UFO packets smaller 
> > than
> > the MTU, which are then discarded by the software fallback path.
> > 
> > How to reproduce: copy a large file to an NFS mount with UFO enabled and 
> > going
> > through the software fallback path, e.g. on a KVM guest with virtio-net and
> > qdev device syntax:
> > 
> > -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap1,mac=ab:cd:ef:01:23:45 \
> > -netdev type=tap,id=tap1,ifname=tap1
> > 
> > All NFS mounts immediately stall and processes go into D state, stuck
> > on nfs_wait_bit_uninterruptible. There is no further communication between
> > the client and the server.
> > 
> > It has been fixed in 2.6.35-rc4 by Herbert Xu (patch for 
> > net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > attached). However, it's still not in 2.6.32.x longterm (as of 2.6.32.39).
> > 
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