From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: fix checksum on UDP IPV6
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:48:54 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161013.104854.161431794581843096.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161011140307.15fd390b@xeon-e3>
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:03:07 -0700
> The software calculation of UDP checksum in Netvsc driver was
> only handling IPv4 case. By using skb_checksum_help() instead
> all protocols can be handled. Rearrange code to eliminate goto
> and look like other drivers.
>
> This is a temporary solution; recent versions of Window Server etc
> do support UDP checksum offload, just need to do the appropriate negotiation
> with host to validate before using. This will be done in later patch.
>
> Please queue this for -stable as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Stephen.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-11 21:03 [PATCH net] netvsc: fix checksum on UDP IPV6 Stephen Hemminger
2016-10-12 16:58 ` [PATCH net v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2016-10-13 14:48 ` David Miller [this message]
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