[ovs-dev] skb_gso_segment() bad offloads warnings fixed?

Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo) jarno.rajahalme at nsn.com
Fri May 24 04:41:41 UTC 2013


On May 23, 2013, at 20:28 , ext Jesse Gross wrote:
> The upstream commit is not really right - the check should depend on
> the origin of the packet, not the location in the networking stack
> processing it. Most of the time these are somewhat the same but
> obviously when bridging, received packets commonly go through the
> transmit path. In the OVS tunnel code, we know that we are doing
> bridging so I used the looser check.

Any chance on backporting this? Obviously it requires Linux 3.9, but it would be nice to have the looser check in the OVS releases that currently go the the various distributions.

  Jarno




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