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authorDaniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>2018-03-09 14:06:09 +1100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-09 11:41:47 -0500
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net: use skb_is_gso_sctp() instead of open-coding
As well as the basic conversion, I noticed that a lot of the SCTP code checks gso_type without first checking skb_is_gso() so I have added that where appropriate. Also, document the helper. Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
index fc0c949e7f9c..aca542ec125c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,10 @@ Therefore, any code in the core networking stack must be aware of the
possibility that gso_size will be GSO_BY_FRAGS and handle that case
appropriately.
-There are a couple of helpers to make this easier:
+There are some helpers to make this easier:
+
+ - skb_is_gso(skb) && skb_is_gso_sctp(skb) is the best way to see if
+ an skb is an SCTP GSO skb.
- For size checks, the skb_gso_validate_*_len family of helpers correctly
considers GSO_BY_FRAGS.