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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:10:34 +0100

> Nice spot Dimitris !
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

Ok, I'll apply this.

> This fixes a bug present in previous linux versions (before commit 
> 33966dd0e2f68f26943cd9ee93ec6abbc6547a8e tcp: splice as many packets
>  as possible at once)
>  
> It should be backported as well, changing tss->len by min(tss->len, len) ?

Indeed, I'll queue this up for -stable to remind myself about
this.

Thanks Eric.