RE: [PATCH v3 8/8] doc: add release note about ip_frag changes

[Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>]

> These changes maybe surprising and need some documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst
> index 4ca0a9ac77..4918cb59ed 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst
> @@ -241,6 +241,16 @@ API Changes
>    - ``rte_pmd_mlx5_enable_steering``
>    - ``rte_pmd_mlx5_disable_steering``
> 
> +* **ip_frag: changed handling of malformed fragments.**
> +
> +  - Duplicate fragments are tolerated instead of failing reassembly.
> +  - Overlapping fragments are rejected on arrival rather than during reassembly.
> +  - Oversized fragments (reassembled length over 65535) are rejected.
> +  - For IPv6, fragments with per-fragment extension headers are rejected.
> +
> +  Overlap and oversize are now detected on arrival, which adds a scan of the
> +  already received fragments per fragment and may affect throughput.
> +
> 
>  ABI Changes
>  -----------
> --

Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>

> 2.53.0