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A latter patch will postpone the delivery_time clearing until the stack knows the skb is being delivered locally (i.e. calling skb_clear_delivery_time() at ip_local_deliver_finish() for IPv4 and at ip6_input_finish() for IPv6). That will allow other kernel forwarding path (e.g. ip[6]_forward) to keep the delivery_time also. A very similar IPv6 defrag codes have been duplicated in multiple places: regular IPv6, nf_conntrack, and 6lowpan. Unlike the IPv4 defrag which is done before ip_local_deliver_finish(), the regular IPv6 defrag is done after ip6_input_finish(). Thus, no change should be needed in the regular IPv6 defrag logic because skb_clear_delivery_time() should have been called. 6lowpan also does not need special handling on delivery_time because it is a non-inet packet_type. However, cf_conntrack has a case in NF_INET_PRE_ROUTING that needs to do the IPv6 defrag earlier. Thus, it needs to save the mono_delivery_time bit in the inet_frag_queue which is similar to how it is handled in the previous patch for the IPv4 defrag. This patch chooses to do it consistently and stores the mono_delivery_time in the inet_frag_queue for all cases such that it will be easier for the future refactoring effort on the IPv6 reasm code. Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.