netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] xen-netback: fix fragment detection in checksum setup

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Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:29:05 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] xen-netback: fix fragment detection in checksum
 setup

On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 13:23 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> The code to detect fragments in checksum_setup() was missing for IPv4 and
> too eager for IPv6. (It transpires that Windows seems to send IPv6 packets
> with a fragment header even if they are not a fragment - i.e. offset is zero,
> and M bit is not set).

> +	/* 3fff -> fragment offset != 0 OR more fragments */
> +	if (ntohs(iph->frag_off) & 0x3fff)
> +		fragment = true;
> +

What about the more self documented and faster :

if (iph->frag_off & htons(IP_OFFSET | IP_MF))
	fragment = true;



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