[Yakkety SRU] Backport 4.9.y stable fixes for virtio

[Jay Vosburgh]

Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:

>http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685416 reports that we are missing
>some patches in yakkety which fix incorrectly setting
>VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on outgoing packets.
>
>The two patches were applied to 4.9.8 upstream stable but 4.8.y was
>already out of support then.

	I'll just point out that I submitted an SRU for this same set of
patches last week:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2017-April/083691.html

	SRU is against LP 1683947, which includes a test case.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh at canonical.com