netdev - Re: udp checksum issue in netpoll mode.

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:02:09 +0800
From:	"Aubrey Li" <aubreylee@...il.com>
To:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: udp checksum issue in netpoll mode.

On 4/12/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Aubrey Li wrote:
> > I think we discussed this issue before.
> >
> > The current checksum function doesn't consider the kind of packet
> > which is padded to reach a specific minimum length. I believe that's
> > the problem caused my test case failed. Is this issue fixed? Or is it
> > acceptable if I make a patch not calculating this kind of packet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Aubrey
> The caller should be trimming the packet and updating the hardware checksum
> value (like the normal UDP path).
>
OK, the following patch fixed the problem.

Signed-off-by: Aubrey.Li <aubreylee@...il.com>
---
 net/core/netpoll.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 823215d..522e441 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -471,6 +471,13 @@ int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (skb->len < len || len < iph->ihl*4)
 		goto out;

+	/*
+	 * Our transport medium may have padded the buffer out.
+	 * Now We trim to the true length of the frame.
+	 */
+	if (pskb_trim_rcsum(skb, len))
+		goto out;
+
 	if (iph->protocol != IPPROTO_UDP)
 		goto out;

-- 
1.5.1
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