On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 03:16 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > [...] > > [ Upstream commit 4fa48bf3c75069d636fc8830743c929a062e80dc ] > > > > commit f07d960df3 (tcp: avoid frag allocation for small frames) > > breaked assumption in tcp stack that skb is either linear (skb->data_len > > == 0), or fully fragged (skb->data_len == skb->len) > > > > tcp_trim_head() made this assumption, we must fix it. > > Is this needed in the context of 3.2.y (which does not include > f07d960df3)? [...]
The code being replaced really didn't make sense, but unless there is
some other case that breaks the assumption described then I don't think
this meets the stable rules. David?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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