Bug#970722: linux: Igc driver has /proc/net/dev stats issue

[Hideo Oshima <hidenosuke@hidenosuke.org>]

Hi Salvatore,

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:40:26 +0100
Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Hideo,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 02:10:44PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 09:59:17PM +0900, Hideo Oshima wrote:
> > > On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 09:48:22 +0100
> > > Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:22:02PM +0900, Hideo Oshima wrote:
> > > > > I found the bug in Kernel.org Bugzilla.
> > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208431
> > > > 
> > > > Can you check, is cherry-picking 6b7ed22ae4c9 ("igc: Fix returning
> > > > wrong statistics") fixing this issue?
> > > 
> > > Sorry.
> > > I don't know how to apply the patch.
> > 
> > Have a look at
> > https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.2
> > witht the attached patch.
> > 
> > Does this helps? Otherwise I can look if I can provide you a temporary
> > build with the patch.
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~carnil/tmp/linux/fix-igc-driver-stats/
> 
> contains temporary (and unsigned!) binary builds. If you can trust
> them then, they would contain the mentioned patch applied.
> 
> They furthermore are as well alrady based on 5.9.8 upstream instead of
> 5.9.6 as this is pending for the next unstable upload.

I tried your build and the issue seems to be solved.
Thanks very much for your work!

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