Comment 3 for bug 1186236

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Julian Wiedmann (jwiedmann) wrote :

The update to 3.8.13 brings

commit 7f9cc57937dfbe59c25f66e801bfecf5cb0de031
Author: Stefan Bader <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 26 13:49:32 2013 +0000

    r8169: fix 8168evl frame padding.

    commit e5195c1f31f399289347e043d6abf3ffa80f0005 upstream.

This patch needs the following fix (from mainline, not in -stable yet)

commit b423e9ae49d78ea3f53b131c8d5a6087aed16fd6
Author: françois romieu <email address hidden>
Date: Sat May 18 01:24:46 2013 +0000

    r8169: fix offloaded tx checksum for small packets.

    8168evl offloaded checksums are wrong since commit
    e5195c1f31f399289347e043d6abf3ffa80f0005 ("r8169: fix 8168evl frame padding.")
    pads small packets to 60 bytes (without ethernet checksum). Typical symptoms
    appear as UDP checksums which are wrong by the count of added bytes.

    It isn't worth compensating. Let the driver checksum.

    Due to the skb length changes, TSO code is moved before the Tx descriptor gets
    written.