netdev - Re: TAHI CN-6-4-1 failed on Linux 2.6.32 kernel

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikeLtFqO4FcZKceCntycLSa-ZCPGF28t6nj=Gab@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:00:57 -0500
From:	Steve Chen <schen@...sta.com>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	usagi-users-ctl@...linux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TAHI CN-6-4-1 failed on Linux 2.6.32 kernel

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Steve Chen <schen@...sta.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> On 07/28/2010 11:20 PM, Steve Chen wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The TAHI correspondent node tests CN-6-4-1 (Processing in upper layer
>>> - Echo Checksum) failed for me in the 2.6.32 kernel.  It appears that
>>> the Linux kernel is replying the ICMP echo request in
>>> icmpv6_echo_reply without much checking.  Is this an intentional
>>> non-conformance to RFC3775 section 9.3.1?
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply.  I've run these tests in the past against
>> SLES11 (2.6.27 ?) back in January 2009 and this one passed from looking
>> at my logs.  I don't have that system around anymore to check the config,
>> etc.  I didn't see any obvious commit that would have broken it from a
>> quick look, do you have a test setup to do some debugging?  It will
>> take a little time for me to re-configure mine to run this test.
>
> Brian,
>
> I'm using mip6d from git://www.umip.org/git/umip.git commit id
> d1c240f3deb690af902ce1ff128780551ff6141c.  Is that the correct version
> to use?  Looking at the kernel code again, the checksum error should
> have been caught in icmpv6_rcv.  There are probably something wrong
> with my setup.  I'll dig around a bit more.
>
> Tests 5-3-1 to 5-3-6 also failed for me.   Did they pass for you?

By the way, these tests passed for me with the following patch.
Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Steve

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