Many users of skb_checksum_help() are just using it to recalculate
outbound checksum, so why not expose the interface in a more useful
way. Suggested by Ingo Oeser.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/skbuff.h 2006-04-27 11:12:53.0
-0700
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h2006-05-11 11:17:39.0 -0700
@@ -1343,6 +1343,24 @@
__skb_checksum_complete(skb);
}
+extern int skb_checksum_recalc(struct sk_buff *skb);
+/**
+ * skb_checksum_help - recalculate checksum of packet
+ * @skb: packet to process
+ * @inward: direction of flow, zero is receiving
+ *
+ * Invalidate hardware checksum when packet is to be mangled on
+ * receive and complete checksum manually on outgoing path.
+ */
+static inline int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb, int inward)
+{
+ if (inward) {
+ skb-ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return skb_checksum_recalc(skb);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER
static inline void nf_conntrack_put(struct nf_conntrack *nfct)
{
--- sky2.orig/net/core/dev.c2006-05-10 10:17:51.0 -0700
+++ sky2/net/core/dev.c 2006-05-11 11:22:27.0 -0700
@@ -1144,39 +1144,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_device_attach);
-/*
- * Invalidate hardware checksum when packet is to be mangled, and
- * complete checksum manually on outgoing path.
- */
-int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb, int inward)
-{
- unsigned int csum;
- int ret = 0, offset = skb-h.raw - skb-data;
-
- if (inward) {
- skb-ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
- goto out;
- }
-
- if (skb_cloned(skb)) {
- ret = pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- }
-
- BUG_ON(offset (int)skb-len);
- csum = skb_checksum(skb, offset, skb-len-offset, 0);
-
- offset = skb-tail - skb-h.raw;
- BUG_ON(offset = 0);
- BUG_ON(skb-csum + 2 offset);
-
- *(u16*)(skb-h.raw + skb-csum) = csum_fold(csum);
- skb-ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
-out:
- return ret;
-}
-
/* Take action when hardware reception checksum errors are detected. */
#ifdef CONFIG_BUG
void netdev_rx_csum_fault(struct net_device *dev)
@@ -3403,7 +3370,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_gifconf);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifier);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum_help);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_net);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_notifier);
--- sky2.orig/net/core/skbuff.c 2006-04-27 11:12:54.0 -0700
+++ sky2/net/core/skbuff.c 2006-05-11 11:23:13.0 -0700
@@ -1334,6 +1334,36 @@
}
/**
+ * skb_checksum_recalc - force software checksum
+ * @skb: skb to process
+ * Force complete checksum, this is used to force a software checksum
+ * on the outgoing path.
+ */
+int skb_checksum_recalc(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ unsigned int csum;
+ int ret = 0, offset = skb-h.raw - skb-data;
+
+ if (skb_cloned(skb)) {
+ ret = pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ BUG_ON(offset (int)skb-len);
+ csum = skb_checksum(skb, offset, skb-len-offset, 0);
+
+ offset = skb-tail - skb-h.raw;
+ BUG_ON(offset = 0);
+ BUG_ON(skb-csum + 2 offset);
+
+ *(u16*)(skb-h.raw + skb-csum) = csum_fold(csum);
+ skb-ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/**
* skb_dequeue - remove from the head of the queue
* @list: list to dequeue from
*
@@ -1854,6 +1884,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum_recalc);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_clone);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_clone_fraglist);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_copy);
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