Re: mpd client timeouts (bisected) 2.6.35-rc3

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 10:18:00 EST


On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:13:18PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:36:30 -0700
>
> > Needed to set the wcard bit in copy_skb_header otherwise it will not
> > be cleared when called from skb_clone. Which then hits the loopback
> > device gets pushed into the rx path and is eventually dropped. The
> > following patch fixes this. Hopefully, this is easy and fast enough
> > for you Dave.
> >
> >
> > [PATCH] net: fix deliver_no_wcard regression on loopback device
> >
> > deliver_no_wcard is not being set in skb_copy_header.
> > In the skb_cloned case it is not being cleared and
> > may cause the skb to be dropped when the loopback device
> > pushes it back up the stack.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, but your email client corrupted this patch in many
> ways. Please correct this for next time, thanks.

FWIW:

Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

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