netdev - Re: [INET]: Prevent out-of-sync truesize on ip

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Message-Id: <20080128.204554.63558184.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:45:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [INET]: Prevent out-of-sync truesize on ip_fragment slow path

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:12:59 +1100

> Hi:
> 
> [INET]: Prevent out-of-sync truesize on ip_fragment slow path
> 
> When ip_fragment has to hit the slow path the value of skb->truesize
> may go out of sync because we would have updated it without changing
> the packet length.  This violates the constraints on truesize.
> 
> This patch postpones the update of skb->truesize to prevent this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, I'll queue this up for 2.6.24-stable too.
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