netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tipc: fix message corruption bug for deferred packets

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Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:35:41 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	erik.hugne@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tipc: fix message corruption bug for deferred
 packets

From: <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:38:26 +0100

> From: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> 
> If a packet received on a link is out-of-sequence, it will be
> placed on a deferred queue and later reinserted in the receive
> path once the preceding packets have been processed. The problem
> with this is that it will be subject to the buffer adjustment from
> link_recv_buf_validate twice. The second adjustment for 20 bytes
> header space will corrupt the packet.
> 
> We solve this by tagging the deferred packets and bail out from
> receive buffer validation for packets that have already been
> subjected to this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied, thanks.
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