These changes maybe surprising and need some documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst index 4ca0a9ac77..4918cb59ed 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst @@ -241,6 +241,16 @@ API Changes - ``rte_pmd_mlx5_enable_steering`` - ``rte_pmd_mlx5_disable_steering`` +* **ip_frag: changed handling of malformed fragments.** + + - Duplicate fragments are tolerated instead of failing reassembly. + - Overlapping fragments are rejected on arrival rather than during reassembly. + - Oversized fragments (reassembled length over 65535) are rejected. + - For IPv6, fragments with per-fragment extension headers are rejected. + + Overlap and oversize are now detected on arrival, which adds a scan of the + already received fragments per fragment and may affect throughput. + ABI Changes ----------- -- 2.53.0
