netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: rpl: fix loop iteration

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Date:   Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:06:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alex.aring@...il.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        mcr@...delman.ca, stefan@...enfreihafen.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: rpl: fix loop iteration

From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
Date: Sat,  4 Apr 2020 11:22:57 -0400

> This patch fix the loop iteration by not walking over the last
> iteration. The cmpri compressing value exempt the last segment. As the
> code shows the last iteration will be overwritten by cmpre value
> handling which is for the last segment.
> 
> I think this doesn't end in any bufferoverflows because we work on worst
> case temporary buffer sizes but it ends in not best compression settings
> in some cases.
> 
> Fixes: 8610c7c6e3bd ("net: ipv6: add support for rpl sr exthdr")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.