[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/6] datapath: Allow jumbograms through IPv6 parsing.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Mar 3 18:32:37 UTC 2011
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 07:20:33PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Currently we stop parsing packets that are IPv6 jumbograms. While
> it isn't possible to send such large packets to userspace, it's better
> to drop them at that point rather than prematurely in the IPv6 code.
> IPv6 does make some use of the payload length field but we can just as
> easily use skb->len, which is what all other parsing uses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
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