Re: [PATCH] e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum mask is not set

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Apr 25 2025 - 12:45:26 EST


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 07:37:26PM +0200, Jacek Kowalski wrote:
> > Although I do wonder if commit 4051f68318ca9 is backported,
> > will this patch (once accepted) end up being backported far enough?
>
> Stable 5.10 (and newer) already has 4051f68318ca9 and ffd24fa2fcc7:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y#n4139
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y&id=8f1e3ad9456935f538c4ba06d2c04f2581ec385f
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c?h=linux-5.10.y&id=eb5e444fe37d467e54d2945c1293f311ce782f67
>
> In my opinion my patch should be backported as well.

Yes, I agree.