netdev - Re: [PATCH] act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:02:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	xiaosuo@...il.com, hadi@...erus.ca, rpartearroyo@...entia.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, ipichel@...entia.com,
	nmoron@...entia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header
 payload

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:22:33 +0200

> Rodrigo spent lot of time to find the problem and is willing to fix it.

I gave Rodrigo suitable credit in the final commit message.

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>From 70c2efa5a32a7d38e66224844032160317fa7887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:33:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload
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not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload, so we check the length
of the skbs only when the packets should have an IP header payload.

Based upon analysis and initial patch by Rodrigo Partearroyo González.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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