netdev - Re: [2/2] gro: Clean up tcpX_gro_receive checksum verification

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:47:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [2/2] gro: Clean up tcpX_gro_receive checksum verification

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:58:18 -0800

> On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 10:32 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> This patch simplifies the checksum verification in tcpX_gro_receive
>> by reusing the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE code for CHECKSUM_NONE.  All it
>> does for CHECKSUM_NONE is compute the partial checksum and then
>> treat it as if it came from the hardware (CHECKSUM_COMPLETE).
>>     
>> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html