netdev - Re: [XFRM]: beet: fix worst case header

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:48:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [XFRM]: beet: fix worst case header_len calculation

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:56:51 +0200

> The pskb_copy_expand crash I was seeing was triggered by BEET
> mode not calculating the SA's header_len value for the worst
> case, causing skb headroom expansions. This patch uses the
> worst case value by including the maximum length of the pseudo
> header.
> 
> The patch applies on top of the MTU optimization patch.

Applied, thanks Patrick.

Can you backport this to 2.6.21 for me, if you think we should
bother?  Thanks.

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