linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2.6.18-rc1-mm2 1/3] net: UDP-Lite generic support

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Date:	Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:33:16 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk (Gerrit Renker)
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, davem@...emloft.net, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, kaber@...eworks.de,
	pekkas@...core.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2  2.6.18-rc1-mm2   1/3]  net:  UDP-Lite generic support

Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> diff -Nurp  a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> --- a/net/core/sock.c   2006-07-06 09:08:24.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c   2006-07-14 10:17:50.000000000 +0100
> @@ -479,7 +479,12 @@ set_rcvbuf:
>                        break;
> 
>                case SO_NO_CHECK:
> -                       sk->sk_no_check = valbool;
> +                       /* UDP-Lite (RFC 3828) mandates checksumming,
> +                        * hence user must not enable this option.   */
> +                       if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDPLITE)
> +                               ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +                       else
> +                           sk->sk_no_check = valbool;

Please don't add protocol-specific stuff to generic functions.  In this
case why don't you just ignore sk_no_check for UDPLITE as we do for TCP?

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