netdev - Re: macvtap: Fix csum_start when VLAN tags are present

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Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:52:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: macvtap: Fix csum_start when VLAN tags are present

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:01:25 +0800

> When VLAN is in use in macvtap_put_user, we end up setting
> csum_start to the wrong place.  The result is that the whoever
> ends up doing the checksum setting will corrupt the packet instead
> of writing the checksum to the expected location, usually this
> means writing the checksum with an offset of -4.
> 
> This patch fixes this by adjusting csum_start when VLAN tags are
> detected.
> 
> Fixes: f09e2249c4f5 ("macvtap: restore vlan header on user read")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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