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

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Great. Thanks, Greg!

neal



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