linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: fix csum_partial_copy

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2016 08:15:46 +0200
From:	Alessio Igor Bogani <alessio.bogani@...ttra.eu>
To:	Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
Cc:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	antoine.blangy@....fr, segher@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: fix csum_partial_copy_generic()

Scott,

On 4 August 2016 at 05:53, Scott Wood <oss@...error.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 10:07 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> commit 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic()
>> based on copy_tofrom_user()") introduced a bug when destination
>> address is odd and initial csum is not null
>>
>> In that (rare) case the initial csum value has to be rotated one byte
>> as well as the resulting value is
>>
>> This patch also fixes related comments
>>
>> Fixes: 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic()
>> based on copy_tofrom_user()")
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
>> ---
>>  v2: updated comments as suggested by Segher
>>
>>  arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S | 7 ++++---
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Alessio, can you confirm whether this fixes the problem you reported?

No unfortunately.

Ciao,
Alessio