netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] inet: remove now unused flag DST

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Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:59:59 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] inet: remove now unused flag DST_NOPEER

On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 09:11 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> Commit e688a604807647 ("net: introduce DST_NOPEER dst flag") introduced
> DST_NOPEER because because of crashes in ipv6_select_ident called from
> udp6_ufo_fragment.
> 
> Since commit 916e4cf46d0204 ("ipv6: reuse ip6_frag_id from
> ip6_ufo_append_data") we don't call ipv6_select_ident any more from
> ip6_ufo_append_data, thus this flag lost its purpose and can be removed.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> ---

SGTM

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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