[SRU][Xenial][Zesty][PATCH 0/1] net: reduce skb_warn_bad_offload() noise
Joseph Salisbury
joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Sun Jul 30 14:42:51 UTC 2017
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705447
== SRU Justification ==
This bug causes a misleading kernel warning skb_warn_bad_offload during checksum calculation.
This has been fixed mainling commit b2504a5dbef3305ef41988ad270b0e8ec289331c.
The commit is in mainline as of v4.11-rc1.
There have been reports of Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machines (with ip forward enabled) displaying these misleading warnings.
== Fix ==
commit b2504a5dbef3305ef41988ad270b0e8ec289331c
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Tue Jan 31 10:20:32 2017 -0800
net: reduce skb_warn_bad_offload() noise
== Regression Potential ==
This commit is just removing warnings, so risk of regression is low.
== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
Eric Dumazet (1):
net: reduce skb_warn_bad_offload() noise
net/core/dev.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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