*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1683947 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1683947
Hi Jason, actually we found out that someone else already had been
requesting those changes last week. It was decided that it is better to
get these changes out quickly so it should be in the next few days.
SRU Justification:
Impact: Currently we carry changes to virtio in Yakkety (Xenial/HWE)
which got fixed in 4.9.y upstream. However 4.8.y went out of support
before that. This causes packets accidentally be dropped when forwarded
between various KVM instances (which affects all KVM based Yakkety
Hi Stefan -- thanks for taking ownership of this bug. Could you give a
rough timeline on when you expect to roll out the next kernel update
that contains these commits?
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** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-hwe (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
** Also affects: linux-hwe (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux-hwe (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685416
No such log is necessary. You simply forgot to backport two critical
patches.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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** Description changed:
The HWE kernel, and possibly others too, backport some virtio
improvements related to setting VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on received
packets so that the CPU doesn't have to checksum packets that have
already been verified by hardware. In the initial implementation
