On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Andre Noll wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 10:28, Greg KH wrote > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.34 kernel. > > > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. > > This update broke PXE boot on our 4-way AMD boxes. The kernel panics in > eth_type_trans(), presumably during kernel-level IP autoconfiguration, > see [1]. Bisection points me at 5c67f947 (net: __skb_flow_dissect() > must cap its return value). And indeed, reverting this commit fixes > the problem for me. > > Investigation showed that the real problem is not the change in the > above commit per se (i.e., capping ->thoff) but the fact that in the > success case, where we jump to the "out_good" label, ->thoff is now > set *after* ->n_proto and ->ip_proto. I fail to see how order matters > here, but it clearly does, since the crash is 100% reproducible, > and is fixed by the commit below (on top of v4.4.34). > > Please consider applying something like the patch below for mainline > and -stable. If this issue is also the same for Linus's tree, we should cc: netdev so that the patch can get into there, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html