On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> all stable release queues from v4.9.y up to v5.4.y have boot stall
> problems. The culprit is the backport of commit d7ea0d9df2a6 ("net:
> remove two BUG() from skb_checksum_help()"), specifically the following
> code.
>
Not sure why this patch has been backported.
It had no Fixes: tag, and was not a stable candidate.
> While that works fine in the upstream kernel since ret is subsequently
> always overwritten, that is not the case in older kernels. In those,
> the function now always returns -EINVAL.
