netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

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Message-ID: <473D18D6.6050903@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:13:10 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket
 filter

David Miller said the following on 2007-11-16 12:04:
> From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:18:16 +0800
> 
> That's right, InDataGrams will increase even if we haven't
> verified the checksum yet.
> 
> When the user does a recvmsg() or a poll() on the socket,
> we will notice the bad checksum then and increment InErrors.
> We could in this case correct the InDatagrams counter by
> decrementing it in this case.
> 

Yes, it's a good idea.
I will make the patch and test it.
Thank dave for the suggestion.

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