netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 -next] net/core/dev: Warn on a too-short GRO frame

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Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aconole@...heb.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, joe@...ches.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 -next] net/core/dev: Warn on a too-short GRO frame

From: Aaron Conole <aconole@...heb.org>
Date: Sat,  2 Apr 2016 15:26:43 -0400

> From: Aaron Conole <aconole@...heb.org>
> 
> When signaling that a GRO frame is ready to be processed, the network stack
> correctly checks length and aborts processing when a frame is less than 14
> bytes. However, such a condition is really indicative of a broken driver,
> and should be loudly signaled, rather than silently dropped as the case is
> today.
> 
> Convert the condition to use net_warn_ratelimited() to ensure the stack
> loudly complains about such broken drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@...heb.org>

Applied, thanks.