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

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:02:37 +0100
From:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

>>>>> "DM" == David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

DM> When the user does a recvmsg() or a poll() on the socket, we will
DM> notice the bad checksum then and increment InErrors. We could in
DM> this case correct the InDatagrams counter by decrementing it in
DM> this case.

Does that mean that InDatagrams can decrease? I would expect some
programs to interpret that as counter overflow.

/Benny

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