[PATCH] Fix UDP checksum issue in net poll mode.

From: Aubrey Li
Date: Tue Apr 17 2007 - 02:54:12 EST


In net poll mode, the current checksum function doesn't consider the
kind of packet which is padded to reach a specific minimum length. I
believe that's the problem causing my test case failed. The following
patch fixed this issue.

Signed-off-by: Aubrey.Li <aubreylee@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/netpoll.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 823215d..522e441 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -471,6 +471,13 @@ int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (skb->len < len || len < iph->ihl*4)
goto out;

+ /*
+ * Our transport medium may have padded the buffer out.
+ * Now We trim to the true length of the frame.
+ */
+ if (pskb_trim_rcsum(skb, len))
+ goto out;
+
if (iph->protocol != IPPROTO_UDP)
goto out;

--
1.5.1
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