netdev - Re: [3/3] gro: Fix merging of paged packets

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Message-Id: <20090117.230435.142761364.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:04:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3/3] gro: Fix merging of paged packets

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:48:13 +1100

> gro: Fix merging of paged packets
> 
> The previous fix to paged packets broke the merging because it
> reset the skb->len before we added it to the merged packet.  This
> wasn't detected because it simply resulted in the truncation of
> the packet while the missing bit is subsequently retransmitted.
> 
> The fix is to store skb->len before we clobber it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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