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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:53:28 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Mitsuru Chinen <mitch@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> Subject: Re: [UDP6]: Restore sk_filter optimisation On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:33:20PM +0900, Mitsuru Chinen wrote: > Hello Herbert, > > Let me ask a question about this patch. > After this patch was applied, 2 of the protocol stack behaviors were > changed when it receives a UDP datagram with broken checksum: > > 1. udp6InDatagrams is incremented instead of udpInErrors > 2. In userland, recvfrom() replies an error with EAGAIN. > recvfrom() wasn't aware of such a packet before. > > Are these changes intentional? It wasn't my intention if that's what you mean :) However, this would've happened with the old code anyway if someone had a filter attached so this isn't new. If it's a problem then we should just get it fixed. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
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