netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] gro: reset skb

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Date:	Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:53:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andy@...yhouse.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] gro: reset skb_iif on reuse

From: andy@...yhouse.net
Date: Wed,  2 Feb 2011 16:27:27 -0500

> Like Herbert's change from a few days ago:
> 
> 66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse
> 
> this may not be necessary at this point, but we should still clean up
> the skb->skb_iif.  If not we may end up with an invalid valid for
> skb->skb_iif when the skb is reused and the check is done in
> __netif_receive_skb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

Applied, thanks Andy.
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