netdev - Re: ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send

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Message-ID: <20100421231957.GA5903@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:19:57 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cratiu@...acom.com
Subject: Re: ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response checksum

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:28:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> See?  We were computing the checksum over the TCP header twice now :-)
> That's why my patch fixed things for dataless packets, whose
> ->csum would evaluate to zero.

Oh I see, as send_response packets are always dataless this is
corect.

Thanks!
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