netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: early demux should be aware of fragments

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Message-Id: <20160127.170203.701586924097928864.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:02:03 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	joe@....org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, pshelar@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: early demux should be aware of fragments

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:59:42 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> We should not assume a valid protocol header is present,
> as this is not the case for IPv4 fragments.
> 
> Lets avoid extra cache line misses and potential bugs
> if we actually find a socket and incorrectly uses its dst.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.