netdev - Re: BUG: NIU driver: strange issues with multicast "UDP: short packet"

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Message-ID: <20090204115247.GA22028@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:52:48 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jdb@...x.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: NIU driver: strange issues with multicast "UDP: short
	packet"

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> If the packet does get multicast forwarded, there is all kinds of
> funny code that mangles the packet, for example ipmr_cache_report().

That one looks alright since it'll either allocate a new skb
or at least do pskb_expand_head.

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