netdev - Re: [net-next 0/5] set transport header for untrusted packets

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Message-Id: <20130326.124535.2213486098970156228.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:45:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/5] set transport header for untrusted packets

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:19:54 +0800

> We don't set transport header for untrusted packets in the past, but for the
> follwoing reasons, we need to do it now.
> 
> - Better packet length estimation (introduced in 1def9238) needs l4 header for
>   gso packets to compute the header length.
> - Some driver needs l4 header (e.g. ixgbe needs tcp header to do atr).
> 
> So this patches tries to set transport header for packets from untrusted source
> (netback, packet, tuntap, macvtap). Plus a fix for better estimation on packet
> length for DODGY packet.
> 
> Tested on tun/macvtap/packet, compile test on netback.

Looks good to me, series applied, thanks Jason.
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