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[IPV6]: Segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children
authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:55:43 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:42:01 +0000 (18:42 -0700)
commit59eed279c5daa88d95e429782ddb8ef87e52c44b
tree89f82b76b89293aaf9eae94c9fc7be151e3ba664
parent897522ea1c20691b6a65f32f03ae4e77e508b31c
[IPV6]: Segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children

TCP over IPV6 would incorrectly inherit the GSO settings.
This would cause kernel to send Tcp Segmentation Offload packets for
IPV6 data to devices that can't handle it. It caused the sky2 driver
to lock http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7050
and the e1000 would generate bogus packets. I can't blame the
hardware for gagging if the upper layers feed it garbage.

This was a new bug in 2.6.18 introduced with GSO support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c