This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    vmxnet3: Fix transport header size

to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     vmxnet3-fix-transport-header-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 2dd9e727f451f8aa0a9e360dbdc5559c18f17f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:17:38 +0000
Subject: vmxnet3: Fix transport header size


From: Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit efead8710aad9e384730ecf25eae0287878840d7 ]

Fix transport header size

Fix the transpoert header size for UDP packets.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c |    7 +------
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -830,13 +830,8 @@ vmxnet3_parse_and_copy_hdr(struct sk_buf
                                        ctx->l4_hdr_size = ((struct tcphdr *)
                                           skb_transport_header(skb))->doff * 4;
                                else if (iph->protocol == IPPROTO_UDP)
-                                       /*
-                                        * Use tcp header size so that bytes to
-                                        * be copied are more than required by
-                                        * the device.
-                                        */
                                        ctx->l4_hdr_size =
-                                                       sizeof(struct tcphdr);
+                                                       sizeof(struct udphdr);
                                else
                                        ctx->l4_hdr_size = 0;
                        } else {
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@
 /*
  * Version numbers
  */
-#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING   "1.1.18.0-k"
+#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING   "1.1.29.0-k"
 
 /* a 32-bit int, each byte encode a verion number in VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION */
-#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM      0x01011200
+#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM      0x01011D00
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_PCI_MSI)
        /* RSS only makes sense if MSI-X is supported. */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.2/vmxnet3-fix-transport-header-size.patch
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