Re: IPv6 fragment wrongly

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Hello.

In article <20040706104604.7B52.UEKI.KOHEI@jp.fujitsu.com> (at Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:46:08 +0900), Ueki Kohei <ueki.kohei@jp.fujitsu.com> says:

> If IPv6 data length + IPv6 header > mtu,
> we should divide the IPv6 datagram into fragments.
> But the function ip6_append_data() treats it wrongly.
> It's judged by the following wrong condition:
> If IPv6 data length + IPv6 header + IPv6 fragment option header > mtu,

Thanks, but this is intentional.

> The patch to kernel2.6.7 to solve this problem is shown below.

Patch is wrong and it will break MSG_MORE (at least).


Well, would you take a look at USAGI kernel, please.
We have (tentative) fix for the fragment ieeue.


Thanks.

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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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