mctp: Implement message fragmentation & reassembly
This change implements MCTP fragmentation (based on route & device MTU), and corresponding reassembly. The MCTP specification only allows for fragmentation on the originating message endpoint, and reassembly on the destination endpoint - intermediate nodes do not need to reassemble/refragment. Consequently, we only fragment in the local transmit path, and reassemble locally-bound packets. Messages are required to be in-order, so we simply cancel reassembly on out-of-order or missing packets. In the fragmentation path, we just break up the message into MTU-sized fragments; the skb structure is a simple copy for now, which we can later improve with a shared data implementation. For reassembly, we keep track of incoming message fragments using the existing tag infrastructure, allocating a key on the (src,dest,tag) tuple, and reassembles matching fragments into a skb->frag_list. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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