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    sctp: Drop ipfargok in sctp_xmit function · f880374c
    Herbert Xu authored
    
    
    The ipfragok flag controls whether the packet may be fragmented
    either on the local host on beyond.  The latter is only valid on
    IPv4.
    
    In fact, we never want to do the latter even on IPv4 when PMTU is
    enabled.  This is because even though we can't fragment packets
    within SCTP due to the prtocol's inherent faults, we can still
    fragment it at IP layer.  By setting the DF bit we will improve
    the PMTU process.
    
    RFC 2960 only says that we SHOULD clear the DF bit in this case,
    so we're compliant even if we set the DF bit.  In fact RFC 4960
    no longer has this statement.
    
    Once we make this change, we only need to control the local
    fragmentation.  There is already a bit in the skb which controls
    that, local_df.  So this patch sets that instead of using the
    ipfragok argument.
    
    The only complication is that there isn't a struct sock object
    per transport, so for IPv4 we have to resort to changing the
    pmtudisc field for every packet.  This should be safe though
    as the protocol is single-threaded.
    
    Note that after this patch we can remove ipfragok from the rest
    of the stack too.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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