netdev - Re: netfilter: Only do skb_checksum_help on CHECKSUM_PARTIAL in ip

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Message-ID: <4BBDD1B5.9060205@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:53:09 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netfilter: Only do skb_checksum_help on CHECKSUM_PARTIAL in	ip_queue

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> netfilter: Only do skb_checksum_help on CHECKSUM_PARTIAL in ip_queue
> 
> While doing yet another audit on ip_summed I noticed ip_queue
> calling skb_checksum_help unnecessarily.  As we will set ip_summed
> to CHECKSUM_NONE when necessary in ipq_mangle_ipv4, there is no
> need to zap CHECKSUM_COMPLETE in ipq_build_packet_message.

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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