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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:41:19 +0800 From: lucien xin <lucien.xin@...il.com> To: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com> Cc: network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>, davem <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: partial chunk should be drop without sending abort packet > > Actually, silently dropping this is _very_ bad. There reason is that you've already > processed the leading chunks and may have potentially queued a response... Now, you > reach the end of the packet and find that the last chunk is partial. You end up > dropping the packet, but still handing the responses. This actually lead to some very > interesting issues we were seeing. > > It is better to terminate the association in this case. > > -vlad > make sense, I just cannot ensure we are doing this as RFC, after all, it doesnot say we should send abort in this case clearly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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