Re: [stable request 4.4] tcp: fix tcp_mark_head_lost to check skb len before fragmenting

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On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 03:02:16PM -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> Yes, I can confirm that it would make sense to backport
> 
>    d88270e ("tcp: fix tcp_mark_head_lost to check skb len before fragmenting")
> 
> to 4.4-stable. It should help address that warning shown in that stack trace.
> 
> Unfortunately we don't have a packetdrill test case for this, and it triggers
> quite rarely in our environment. But we have been running with this patch in
> our environment for over a year, and it works fine for us.

Thanks for the confirmation, will go apply it now.

greg k-h



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