netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] l2tp: fix data packet sequence number handling

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Message-Id: <20120510.232756.39316993733451277.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 23:27:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jchapman@...alix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] l2tp: fix data packet sequence number
 handling

From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:43:09 +0100

> If enabled, L2TP data packets have sequence numbers which a receiver
> can use to drop out of sequence frames or try to reorder them. The
> first frame has sequence number 0, but the L2TP code currently expects
> it to be 1. This results in the first data frame being handled as out
> of sequence.
> 
> This one-line patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>

Applied.
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