From: Guenter Roeck
Sent: 10 February 2024 19:16
Calculating the IPv6 checksum on 32-bit systems missed overflows when
adding the proto+len fields into the checksum. This results in the
following unit test failure.
# test_csum_ipv6_magic: ASSERTION FAILED at lib/checksum_kunit.c:506
Expected ( u64)csum_result == ( u64)expected, but
( u64)csum_result == 46722 (0xb682)
( u64)expected == 46721 (0xb681)
not ok 5 test_csum_ipv6_magic
This is probably rarely seen in the real world because proto+len are
usually small values which will rarely result in overflows when calculating
the checksum. However, the unit test code uses large values for the length
field, causing the test to fail.
Isn't length limited by the protocol encoding?
So this is really a bug in the unit tests for using a length that
it too large for the function?