From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:51:21 +1100
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:34:43PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > > > The callpath shows the REJECT target sending a TCP reset. > > I'm guessing it has something to do with skb_copy_expand > > copying the gso fields. > > Indeed. We need to reset the GSO bits there since the new > packet is nothing like the one it's copied from. > > [NETFILTER]: Clear GSO bits for TCP reset packet > > The TCP reset packet is copied from the original. This > includes all the GSO bits which do not apply to the new > packet. So we should clear those bits. > > Spotted by Patrick McHardy. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Something like this is needed for all trees with GSO. > Actually it applies to TSO too although the effect there > is a bit harder to notice. Applied, thanks Herbert. I'll push this to -stable. I'm kind of challenged for time as I'll be out of town from Wednesday until Sunday, so if someone could cook up the TSO variable of the patch for pre-GSO kernels I'd appreciate it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
