netdev - Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6

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Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:19:39 -0700

> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
> 
> Just like ip_fast_csum, the assembly snippet in csum_ipv6_magic needs a
> memory clobber, as it is only passed the address of the buffer, not a
> memory reference to the buffer itself.
> 
> This caused failures in Hurd's pfinetv4 when we tried to compile it with
> gcc-4.3 (bogus checksums).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

I'm happy to see this go in via the x86 tree, and thus:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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