netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: clean up interactions of CHECKSUM

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:33:28 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, vyasevich@...il.com, bcodding@...hat.com,
	tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: clean up interactions of CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and fragmentation

Hi David,

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> writes:

> This series fixes wrong checksums on the wire for IPv4 and IPv6. Large
> send buffers and especially NFS lead to wrong checksums in both IPv4
> and IPv6.
>
> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL skbs should not receive the respective fragmentations
> functions, so we add WARN_ON_ONCE to those functions to fix up those as
> soon as they get reported.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Changelog:
> v2: added v4 checks
> v3: removed WARN_ON_ONCES (advice by Tom Herbert)
>
> Hannes Frederic Sowa (4):
>   ipv4: no CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on MSG_MORE corked sockets
>   ipv4: add defensive check for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL skbs in ip_fragment
>   ipv6: no CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on MSG_MORE corked sockets

Those patches are actually for net and not for net-next, sorry. Guess
I messed it up with Ctrl-R foo.

Thanks,
Hannes
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