svn commit: r241923 - in head/sys: netinet netipsec

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 23 09:12:17 UTC 2012


On 23.10.2012 10:33, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Author: glebius
> Date: Tue Oct 23 08:33:13 2012
> New Revision: 241923
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241923
>
> Log:
>      Do not reduce ip_len by size of IP header in the ip_input()
>    before passing a packet to protocol input routines.
>      For several protocols this mean that now protocol needs to
>    do subtraction itself, and for another half this means that
>    we do not need to add header length back to the packet.

Yay! More Mammoth shit getting washed away! ;)

Please add an entry to UPDATING as the convention of of ip_len
subtraction has been there since forever. That makes it easier
to discover for third parties writing code.

-- 
Andre



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