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Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.
Date 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200
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On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:59 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 04:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > 3.2.80-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> I would be careful about this.  It causes regressions when sending
> PACKET_SOCKET buffers from user-space to veth devices.
> 
> There was a proposed upstream fix for the regression, but it has not gone
> into the tree as far as I know.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg370436.html
[...]

OK, I'll drop this for now.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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[PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-27 01:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-04-27 18:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify  ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good. Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-04-28 02:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don’t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-04-28 02:20 +0200

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