netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:09:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eli@....mellanox.co.il
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, THEMANN@...ibm.com,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, or.gerlitz@...il.com,
	vlad@...lanox.co.il, rdreier@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip_summed when
 not LRO-able

From: Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:29:12 +0300

> When an SKB cannot be chained to a session, the current code attempts
> to "restore" its ip_summed field from lro_mgr->ip_summed. However,
> lro_mgr->ip_summed does not hold the original value; in fact, we'd
> better not touch skb->ip_summed since it is not modified by the code
> in the path leading to a failure to chain it.
> Also use a cleaer comment to the describe the ip_summed field of
> struct net_lro_mgr.
> 
> Issue raised by Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>

Patch applied, thanks everyone.
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