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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,
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