netdev - Re: v2 [Patch 1/1] [BUG-FIX] udplite: Avoid u16 checksum coverage wrap-around

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v2 [Patch 1/1] [BUG-FIX] udplite: Avoid u16 checksum coverage
 wrap-around

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:04:09 +0100

> udplite: Protection against coverage value wrap-around
> 
> This patch clamps the cscov setsockopt values to a maximum of 0xFFFF.
> 
> Setsockopt values greater than 0xffff can cause an unwanted wrap-around.
> Further, IPv6 jumbograms are not supported (RFC 3838, 3.5), so that values
> greater than 0xffff are not even useful.
> 
> Further changes: fixed a typo in the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>

Applied, thanks Gerrit.

I'll queue this up for -stable too.
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