netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: partial chunk should be drop without sending abort packet

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Message-ID: <CADvbK_dFmv1Wp2b_7Gg3dy0tz-Gjt7fvnzGMZP9m88itFMgBtQ@mail.gmail.com>
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.
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