netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] fix two more udp pull header issues

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:25:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com,
	samanthakumar@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] fix two more udp pull header issues

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Apr 2016 18:12:57 -0400

> Follow up patches to the fixes to RxRPC and SunRPC. A scan of the
> code showed two other interfaces that expect UDP packets to have
> a udphdr when queued: read packet length with ioctl SIOCINQ and
> receive payload checksum with socket option IP_CHECKSUM.

As we are seeing, lots of places depend upon the old way of queueing
up UDP frames. :-/

Applied, thanks for mopping all of this up.