On 08.11.19 20:35, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:34:16 +0100 > >> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:16:26PM +0100, Julian Wiedmann wrote: >>> On 08.11.19 13:00, Sasha Levin wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:50:24PM +0100, Julian Wiedmann wrote: >>>>> On 08.11.19 12:37, Sasha Levin wrote: >>>>>> From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> >>>>>> [ Upstream commit f231dc9dbd789b0f98a15941e3cebedb4ad72ad5 ] >>>>>> >>>>>> Combined L3+L4 csum offload is only required for some L3 HW. So for >>>>>> L2 devices, don't offload the IP header csum calculation. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> NACK, this has no relevance for stable. >>>> >>>> Sure, I'll drop it. >>>> >>>> Do you have an idea why the centos and ubuntu folks might have >>>> backported this commit into their kernels? >>>> >>> >>> No clue, I trust they have their own reasons. >>> >> >> I cant see centos backporting anything unless they were asked to do so. >> And this really looks like a "bugfix" to me, why isn't this relevant for >> any older kernel versions? > > Yeah seriously, this looks entirely legit. > I can assure you this doesn't fix any actual bug, and there's zero user impact from _not_ having this patch.
