On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote:
> This bug fix is not required for OVS use cases. But is it
> nice to keep function consistent with upstream implementation.
>
> Upstream commit:
>
>     Earlier patch 6ae459bda tried to detect void ckecksum partial
>     skb by comparing pull length to checksum offset. But it does
>     not work for all cases since checksum-offset depends on
>     updates to skb->data.
>
>     Following patch fixes it by validating checksum start offset
>     after skb-data pointer is updated. Negative value of checksum
>     offset start means there is no need to checksum.
>
>     Fixes: 6ae459bda ("skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull")
>     Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <[email protected]>
>     Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
>
> Upstream: 31b33dfb0a1 ("skbuff: Fix skb checksum partial check");
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
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