netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] tcp: harmonize tcp_vx

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:13:46 -0500
From:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] tcp: harmonize tcp_vx_rcv header length assumptions

I did today's tests on tcp_ipv4, but part of this harmonization is to
make v4 and v6 match up better.  As I was examining line by line, one of
the things that leaps out is that ipv4 has nf_reset(skb):

tcp_ipv4:
	if (!xfrm4_policy_check(sk, XFRM_POLICY_IN, skb))
		goto discard_and_relse;
	nf_reset(skb);

	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
		goto discard_and_relse;

tcp_ipv6:
	if (!xfrm6_policy_check(sk, XFRM_POLICY_IN, skb))
		goto discard_and_relse;

	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
		goto discard_and_relse;

Does anybody know why?  Should ipv6 have it?  Or at least a comment
explaining the reasoning for the omission?


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