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Message-ID: <1336705215.8274.425.camel@deadeye>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 04:00:15 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ 074/167] [PATCH 14/26] tcp: fix tcp_trim_head()
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 03:16 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> [...]
> > [ Upstream commit 4fa48bf3c75069d636fc8830743c929a062e80dc ]
> >
> > commit f07d960df3 (tcp: avoid frag allocation for small frames)
> > breaked assumption in tcp stack that skb is either linear (skb->data_len
> > == 0), or fully fragged (skb->data_len == skb->len)
> >
> > tcp_trim_head() made this assumption, we must fix it.
>
> Is this needed in the context of 3.2.y (which does not include
> f07d960df3)?
[...]
The code being replaced really didn't make sense, but unless there is
some other case that breaks the assumption described then I don't think
this meets the stable rules. David?
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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