Message-ID: <1375892245.4004.31.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Aug 7
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
        wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:17:25 -0700
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On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 18:12 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 17:59 +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> 
> > The idea behind this patch is that users setting the protocol to
> > something else probably do know better and so should be left alone.
> 
> Regardless of that, I think that still the skb pointers would be changed
> by this patch which would confuse the receiver of the SKB (device
> driver), no? Has anyone verified that theory? :)

Maybe receivers made wrong assumptions about some headers being set or
not set ?

A patch can uncover prior bugs.

commit 76fe45812a3b134c3917 is an example of a fix we had to do because
of another fix ;)


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