From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 04:00:15 +0100
> 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? It's a prerequisite for cleanly applying the patch that comes right afterwards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
