linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs

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Message-ID: <4B560ECC.4020506@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:58:04 -0500
From:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp
 bugs

William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Therefore, I'll resubmit this patch, removing the existing len parameter.
> 
And for record, there's a jtcp_rcv_established(), and the len isn't used
there either (it uses skb->len instead).

I also discovered that the related tcp_rcv_state_process() and
tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process() never uses their len parameter.
So, I'll remove them, too.
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