Re: ipv4: Constrain UFO fragment sizes to multiples of 8 bytes

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 18:39:19 EST


On 09.06.2016 06:59, Cong Wang wrote:
> (Cc'ing netdev...)
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Steven Caron <steven.caron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Back in 2011, Bill Sommerfeld submitted an update to prevent ip_append_data to create malformed packets:
>> Commit: d9be4f7a6f5a8da3133b832eca41c3591420b1ca
>>
>> Now we're finding that we need to apply the same logic to ip_append_page to get nfs to work with udp when UFO is enabled:

Uhh, absolutely for the same reason as described in the referred commit.
Can you send a patch?

Thanks,
Hannes