netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: provide default_advmss() methods to blackhole dst

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Message-Id: <20110218.113936.193694941.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:39:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	xiaosuo@...il.com, linux@...izon.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roland@...estorage.com, dbaluta@...acom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: provide default_advmss() methods to blackhole
 dst_ops

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:44:32 +0100

> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 14:33 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> 
>> I had this exact idea but found we need struct net pointer to get this
>> value, not provided in parameters, so I falled back to the 256 value.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hmm, reading again this stuff, maybe we can just use
> ipv4_default_advmss() instead of a custom one.
> 
> dst->dev should be available
> 
> [PATCH] net: provide default_advmss() methods to blackhole dst_ops
> 
> Commit 0dbaee3b37e118a (net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an
> accessor.) introduced a possible crash in tcp_connect_init(), when
> dst->default_advmss() is called from dst_metric_advmss()
> 
> Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Yes, this is a lot better, applied.

Thanks!
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