netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix IP timestamp option (IPOPT_TS_PRESPEC) handling in ip_options

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jluebbe@...ian.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix IP timestamp option (IPOPT_TS_PRESPEC) handling in
 ip_options_echo()

From: Jan Lübbe <jluebbe@...ian.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:11:12 +0100

> The encoding of soffset is a bit unusual, in that the option is 'full'
> when soffset = optlen + 1. We need to keep advancing soffset by 8
> because that's really the amount of data per entry.

Ok, this code is officially terrible :-)

Thanks for explaining things, I've applied your patch, thanks.
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