netdev - [stable] net: make skb_gso_segment error handling more robust

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Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 23:38:55 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Subject: [stable] net: make skb_gso_segment error handling more robust

Brad Spengler pointed out this commit as a candidate for stable:

commit 330966e501ffe282d7184fde4518d5e0c24bc7f8
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date:   Mon Oct 20 13:49:17 2014 +0200

    net: make skb_gso_segment error handling more robust

Some hunks need to be dropped for older branches as skb_gso_segment()
has gained more users over the last few years.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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