netdev - skb_try_coalesce bug?

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:01:25 +0200
From:	Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: skb_try_coalesce bug?

It seems that if the head skb of a reassembly chain have enough tailroom
to hold the data of a received fragment, skb_try_coalesce() will append this
directly to the head, even if preceding fragments have been put on a frag list.
This will cause a corrupted buffer to be passed to userland when 
skb_copy_datagram_iovec() later copies the contents of head, and then each frag
one by one to the target iovec.

Is skb_try_coalesce() broken, or are we using it wrongly in tipc?

//E

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