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From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: joel@jms.id.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: fix checksum validation in response packet
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:16:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873115df-2bd0-65f4-22cf-2b92f3142bf2@kaod.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170418000600.GA4978@gwshan>

On 04/18/2017 02:06 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 01:36:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:56:37 +0200
>>
>>> htonl was used instead of ntohl. Surely a typo.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>>
>> I don't think so, "checksum" is of type "u32" thus is in host byte
>> order.  Therefore "htonl()" is correct.
>>
> 
> Yeah, "htonl()" is correct here. "*pchecksum" is in big-endian.
> I want to know how Cédric thinks it's a problem. I guess he might
> encounter the issue on the emulated NCSI channel by QEMU. 

yes exactly. my bad. After a second look this is correct. Sorry for
the noise. 

> On BCM5718 or BCM5719, the checksum in AEN and response packet 
> are zero'd, meaning the software shouldn't validate it at all.

Interesting.

Thanks,

C.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-18  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-14  8:56 [PATCH] net/ncsi: fix checksum validation in response packet Cédric Le Goater
2017-04-17 17:36 ` David Miller
2017-04-18  0:06   ` Gavin Shan
2017-04-18  6:16     ` Cédric Le Goater [this message]

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