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Date:	Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:34:19 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xt_TCPMSS: SYN packets are allowed to contain data

Simon Arlott wrote:
> The TCPMSS target is dropping SYN packets where:
>   1) There is data, or
>   2) The data offset makes the TCP header larger than the packet.
> 
> Both of these result in an error level printk. This printk has been
> removed.
> 
> This change avoids dropping SYN packets containing data. If there
> is also no MSS option (as well as data), one will not be added
> because of possible complications due to the increased packet size.

Applied, thanks Simon.

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