Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NETFILTER] ip_queue: Fix wrong skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:58:53 +0100

Thomas Graf wrote:
> The size of the skb carrying the netlink message is not
> equivalent to the length of the actual netlink message
> due to padding. ip_queue matches the length of the payload
> against the original packet size to determine if packet
> mangling is desired, due to the above wrong assumption
> arbitary packets may not be mangled depening on their
> original size.

Looks good, thanks Thomas. I think this should also go in 2.4.