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Message-Id: <20100820.014321.45884355.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: baronchon@...m.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net/sched: add ACT_CSUM action to update packets
checksums
From: Grégoire Baron <baronchon@...m.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:10:35 +0200
> net/sched: add ACT_CSUM action to update packets checksums
>
> ACT_CSUM can be called just after ACT_PEDIT in order to re-compute some
> altered checksums in IPv4 and IPv6 packets. The following checksums are
> supported by this patch:
> - IPv4: IPv4 header, ICMP, IGMP, TCP, UDP & UDPLite
> - IPv6: ICMPv6, TCP, UDP & UDPLite
> It's possible to request in the same action to update different kind of
> checksums, if the packets flow mix TCP, UDP and UDPLite, ...
>
> An example of usage is done in the associated iproute2 patch.
>
> Version 3 changes:
> - remove useless goto instructions
> - improve IPv6 hop options decoding
>
> Version 2 changes:
> - coding style correction
> - remove useless arguments of some functions
> - use stack in tcf_csum_dump()
> - add tcf_csum_skb_nextlayer() to factor code
>
> Acked-by: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Gregoire Baron <baronchon@...m.org>
Applied, thanks.
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