netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Fix ip6_xmit to send fragments if ipfragok is true

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:20:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Fix ip6_xmit to send fragments if ipfragok is true

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:55:57PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> SCTP used ip6_xmit() to send fragments after received ICMP packet too
> big message. But while send packet used ip6_xmit, the skb->local_df is
> not initialized. So when skb if enter ip6_fragment
> <../cgi-bin/global.cgi?pattern=ip6_fragment&type=reference>(), the following
> code will discard the skb.

That sounds broken.  ip6_xmit is for TCP-like protocols that
perform PMTU-discovery.  Therefore it should never fragment
locally.

So either SCTP needs to do the same, or it should switch to
something other than ip6_xmit.

Cheers,
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