netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: mld: Prevent skb_over

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Date:	Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:21:03 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	travisb@...stanetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: mld: Prevent skb_over_panic with large MTUs

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:24:58 -0800

> Or even better use skb_availroom() as we do in TCP stack...
> (check sk_stream_alloc_skb())

Agreed, use something like skb_availroom() instead of an ad-hoc
piece of control block state.
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