[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio" has been added to staging queue

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 08:42 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 20:11 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:10 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > > 
> > >     drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio
> > > 
> > > to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> > > which can be found at:
> > > 
> > >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
> > > 
> > > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.
> > > 
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > > reply to this email.
> > [...]
> > 
> > You should drop this as part of it needs to be reverted and that patch
> > hasn't been applied upstream yet.
> 
> Okay, I'll drop "Disable UFO through virtio" from 3.13-stable.
> 
> But what about this subsequent UFO patch which refers to UFO being 'now
> disabled'?  Drop this too, or leave it in?:
> 
>     drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for virtio UFO packets
>     
>     [ Upstream commit 5188cd44c55db3e92cd9e77a40b5baa7ed4340f7 ]
>     
>     UFO is now disabled on all drivers that work with virtio net headers,
>     but userland may try to send UFO/IPv6 packets anyway.  Instead of
>     sending with ID=0, we should select identifiers on their behalf (as we
>     used to).
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
>     Fixes: 916e4cf46d02 ("ipv6: reuse ip6_frag_id from ip6_ufo_append_data")
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
> 
> Thanks very much, Ben!

That's still a useful fix, but will have some fuzz.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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