Patch "atl1e: limit gso segment size to prevent generation of wrong ip length fields" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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

    atl1e: limit gso segment size to prevent generation of wrong ip length fields

to the 3.4-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:
     atl1e-limit-gso-segment-size-to-prevent-generation-of-wrong-ip-length-fields.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From db7408189c80397d5b036a2cc7a2eda889cd437e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:36:46 +0000
Subject: atl1e: limit gso segment size to prevent generation of wrong ip length fields


From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 31d1670e73f4911fe401273a8f576edc9c2b5fea ]

The limit of 0x3c00 is taken from the windows driver.

Suggested-by: Huang, Xiong <xiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang, Xiong <xiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h      |    2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ struct atl1e_tpd_desc {
 /* how about 0x2000 */
 #define MAX_TX_BUF_LEN      0x2000
 #define MAX_TX_BUF_SHIFT    13
-/*#define MAX_TX_BUF_LEN  0x3000 */
+#define MAX_TSO_SEG_SIZE    0x3c00
 
 /* rrs word 1 bit 0:31 */
 #define RRS_RX_CSUM_MASK	0xFFFF
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
@@ -2354,6 +2354,7 @@ static int __devinit atl1e_probe(struct
 
 	INIT_WORK(&adapter->reset_task, atl1e_reset_task);
 	INIT_WORK(&adapter->link_chg_task, atl1e_link_chg_task);
+	netif_set_gso_max_size(netdev, MAX_TSO_SEG_SIZE);
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
 	if (err) {
 		netdev_err(netdev, "register netdevice failed\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/atl1e-limit-gso-segment-size-to-prevent-generation-of-wrong-ip-length-fields.patch
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