Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: fix csum_partial_copy_generic() | Date | Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:38:23 +1000 |
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Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> writes:
> Le 05/08/2016 à 08:57, Michael Ellerman a écrit : >> Alessio Igor Bogani <alessio.bogani@elettra.eu> writes: >>> On 4 August 2016 at 05:53, Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net> wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 10:07 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >>>>> commit 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic() >>>>> based on copy_tofrom_user()") introduced a bug when destination >>>>> address is odd and initial csum is not null >>>>> > > The purpose of this patch was not to address Alessio's issue, but to fix > a huge issue on checksum calculation which induces breakdown of TCP > connections. > > I think it is worth commiting it upstream and on impacted stable > releases, allthought we don't have yet identified the issue Alessio's has.
OK. I'll put it back into fixes on Monday if I haven't heard anything further.
cheers
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