netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix GRE RX to use skb_transport

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Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix GRE RX to use skb_transport_header for GRE
 header offset

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Mon,  8 Sep 2014 08:29:12 -0700

> GRE assumes that the GRE header is at skb_network_header +
> ip_hrdlen(skb). It is more general to use skb_transport_header
> and this allows the possbility of inserting additional header
> between IP and GRE (which is what we will done in Generic UDP
> Encapsulation for GRE).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Tom.
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