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Message-ID: <526046CB.6020506@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:21:31 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

On 10/17/2013 03:26 PM, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi David

Could you please queue this to stable as well.

Thanks
-vlad
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