netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC] Use of uninitialized data in udp

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:57:32 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jim Chow <jchow@...are.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Use of uninitialized data in udp_recvmsg().

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:49AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > That's not true.  Please see my post.
> > 
> > Specifically, at linux-2.6.20.1/net/ipv4/udp.c:843, it seems that 
> > udp_recvmsg() can randomly ignore whether the HW has computed a checksum 
> > and compute it in SW redundantly.
> 
> Sorry, you're right.  This bug has been there for years.

Actually I think we should fix UDP regardless of whether we initialise
msg_flags to zero here.  It's just too error-prone to rely on it to not
have MSG_TRUNC set.

I'm going to clean this up for UDP and improve the UDP-lite checksum
handling while I'm at it.

Cheers,
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