From: Mark Lord <ml...@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 19:28:27 -0400
> The r8152 driver has been broken since (approx) 3.16.xx > when support was added for hardware RX checksums > on newer chip versions. Symptoms include random > segfaults and silent data corruption over NFS. > > The hardware checksum logig does not work on the VER_02 > dongles I have here when used with a slow embedded system CPU. > Google reveals others reporting similar issues on Raspberry Pi. > > So, disable hardware RX checksum support for VER_02, and fix > an obvious coding error for IPV6 checksums in the same function. > > Because this bug results in silent data corruption, > it is a good candidate for back-porting to -stable >= 3.16.xx. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <ml...@pobox.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
