From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:11:01 +1000

> [NET]: Add missing UFO initialisations
> 
> This bug was unknowingly fixed the GSO patches (or rather, its effect was
> unknown at the time).
> 
> Thanks to Marco Berizzi's persistence which is documented in the thread
> "ipsec tunnel asymmetrical mtu", we now know that it can have highly
> non-obvious symptoms.
> 
> What happens is that uninitialised uso_size fields can cause packets to
> be incorrectly identified as UFO, which means that it does not get
> fragmented even if it's over the MTU.
> 
> The fix is simple enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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