vmxnet3: update to latest ToT
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Joseph Salisbury | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Joseph Salisbury | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Joseph Salisbury |
Bug Description
== SRU Justification ==
Recently, a couple of fixes went in vmxnet3 driver related to LRO, transmit
reset and rxvlan disabled fix. VMWare is requesting these fixes in
Bionic and Xenial.
A backport was needed to update version info in vmxnet3_int.h
== Fixes ==
7a4c003d6921 ("vmxnet3: avoid xmit reset due to a race in vmxnet3)"
034f40579389 ("vmxnet3: use correct flag to indicate LRO feature")
65ec0bd1c7c1 ("vmxnet3: fix incorrect dereference when rxvlan is disabled")
== Regression Potential ==
Low. Limited to vmxnet3 driver.
== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with these patches and tested by the original bug reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
Recently, a couple of fixes went in vmxnet3 driver related to LRO, transmit
reset and rxvlan disabled fix. Below are the commits:
This is a request to bring Ubuntu vmxnet3 driver up to date with ToT
Linux kernel. Could you please backport it to 16.04 and 18.04 LTS releases?
Thanks,
Ronak
CVE References
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: bionic xenial |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic removed: verification-needed-bionic |
tags: | added: verification-done-bionic |
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