From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"R. Parameswaran" <parameswaran.r7@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: account for IP version in SKB headroom
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 17:16:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTcH2UjqAvd84l59@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251206162603.24900-1-mail@david-bauer.net>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 05:26:01PM +0100, David Bauer wrote:
> Account for the IP version of the tunnel when accounting skb headroom on
> xmit. This avoids having to potentially copy the skb a second time down
> the stack due to allocating not enough space for IPv6 headers in case
> the tunnel uses IPv6.
>
> Fixes: b784e7ebfce8 ("L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3, L2 hdrs.")
> Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Hi David,
This feels more like an enhancement for net-next than a fix for net.
If so, please resubmit for net-next once it reopens, after 2nd January.
In that case the fixes tag should be dropped.
But you can cite a commit in free-form text in the commit message -
above the tags - something like this.
...
Introduced by commit b784e7ebfce8 ("L2TP:Adjust intf MTU, add underlay L3,
L2 hdrs.").
Signed-off-by: ...
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2025-12-06 16:26 [PATCH net] l2tp: account for IP version in SKB headroom David Bauer
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