Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:19:39 -0700

> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Just like ip_fast_csum, the assembly snippet in csum_ipv6_magic needs a
> memory clobber, as it is only passed the address of the buffer, not a
> memory reference to the buffer itself.
> 
> This caused failures in Hurd's pfinetv4 when we tried to compile it with
> gcc-4.3 (bogus checksums).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm happy to see this go in via the x86 tree, and thus:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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