net: Enable BIG TCP with partial GSO

skb_segment is called for partial GSO, when netif_needs_gso returns true
in validate_xmit_skb. Partial GSO is needed, for example, when
segmentation of tunneled traffic is offloaded to a NIC that only
supports inner checksum offload.

Currently, skb_segment clamps the segment length to 65534 bytes, because
gso_size == 65535 is a special value GSO_BY_FRAGS, and we don't want
to accidentally assign mss = 65535, as it would fall into the
GSO_BY_FRAGS check further in the function.

This implementation, however, artificially blocks len > 65534, which is
possible since the introduction of BIG TCP. To allow bigger lengths and
avoid resegmentation of BIG TCP packets, store the gso_by_frags flag in
the beginning and don't use a special value of mss for this purpose
after mss was modified.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710134242.216538-3-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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