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Message-Id: <20131017.152634.216002495730124314.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	fan.du@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net 0/3] sctp: Use software checksum under certain

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:01:28 -0400

> There are some cards that support SCTP checksum offloading.  When using
> these cards with IPSec or forcing IP fragmentation of SCTP traffic,
> the checksum is computed incorrectly due to the fact that xfrm and IP/IPv6
> fragmentation code do not know that this is SCTP traffic and do not
> know that checksum has to be computed differently.
> 
> To fix this, we let SCTP detect these conditions and perform software
> checksum calculation.

Series applied, thanks Vlad.
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