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    ppp: fix lost fragments in ppp_mp_explode() (resubmit) · a53a8b56
    Ben McKeegan authored
    This patch fixes the corner cases where the sum of MTU of the free
    channels (adjusted for fragmentation overheads) is less than the MTU
    of PPP link.  There are at least 3 situations where this case might
    arise:
    
    - some of the channels are busy
    
    - the multilink session is running in a degraded state (i.e. with less
    than its full complement of active channels)
    
    - by design, where multilink protocol is being used to artificially
    increase the effective link MTU of a single link.
    
    Without this patch, at most 1 fragment is ever sent per free channel
    for a given PPP frame and any remaining part of the PPP frame that
    does not fit into those fragments is silently discarded.
    
    This patch restores the original behaviour which was broken by commit
    9c705260
    
     'ppp:ppp_mp_explode()
    redesign'.  Once all 'free' channels have been given a fragment, an
    additional fragment is queued to each available channel in turn, as many
    times as necessary, until the entire PPP frame has been consumed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen McKeegan <ben@netservers.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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