Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix panic when sending auth chunks

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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  7 Jul 2016 09:39:29 -0300

> When we introduced GSO support, if using auth the auth chunk was being
> left queued on the packet even after the final segment was generated.
> Later on sctp_transmit_packet it calls sctp_packet_reset, which zeroed
> the packet len while not accounting for this left-over. This caused more
> space to be used the next packet due to the chunk still being queued,
> but space which wasn't allocated as its size wasn't accounted.
> 
> The fix is to only queue it back when we know that we are going to
> generate another segment.
> 
> Fixes: 90017accff61 ("sctp: Add GSO support")
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next.

Please make the target tree for your patch explicit in future
submissions.

Thanks.
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