Subject: Re: [XFRM]: beet: fix worst case header_len calculation

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:49:59 +0200

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:56:51 +0200
> 
> 
>>The pskb_copy_expand crash I was seeing was triggered by BEET
>>mode not calculating the SA's header_len value for the worst
>>case, causing skb headroom expansions. This patch uses the
>>worst case value by including the maximum length of the pseudo
>>header.
>>
>>The patch applies on top of the MTU optimization patch.
> 
> 
> Applied, thanks Patrick.
> 
> Can you backport this to 2.6.21 for me, if you think we should
> bother?  Thanks.

Its merely an optimization, so I don't think we should put it in 2.6.21
at this point in the release cycle.