*** net/inet/ip.c.orig	Tue May 30 06:33:31 1995
--- net/inet/ip.c	Wed Nov 13 10:48:33 1996
***************
*** 947,952 ****
--- 947,965 ----
  			return NULL;
  		}
  	}
+  
+ 	/*
+ 	 *	Attempt to construct an oversize packet.
+ 	 */
+ 	 
+ 	if (ntohs(iph->tot_len)+offset>65535)
+ 	{
+ 		printk("Oversized IP packet from %s.\n", in_ntoa(iph->saddr));
+ 		skb->sk = NULL;
+ 		kfree_skb(skb, FREE_READ);
+ 		ip_statistics.IpReasmFails++;
+ 		return NULL;
+ 	}       
  
  	/*
  	 *	Determine the position of this fragment.