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Commit 8e054bd6 authored by Willem de Bruijn's avatar Willem de Bruijn Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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udp: document udp_rcv_segment special case for looped packets

commit d0208bf4 upstream.

Commit 6cd021a5

 ("udp: segment looped gso packets correctly")
fixes an issue with rare udp gso multicast packets looped onto the
receive path.

The stable backport makes the narrowest change to target only these
packets, when needed. As opposed to, say, expanding __udp_gso_segment,
which is harder to reason to be free from unintended side-effects.

But the resulting code is hardly self-describing.
Document its purpose and rationale.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2a03c23b
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