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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "van der Linden, Frank" <fllinden@amazon.com>,
	"edumazet@google.com" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: verify the checksum of the first data segment in a new connection
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:37:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20599722-9a2f-38c8-e4b8-d2eaf40197ab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <631FD61F-40EF-4B6A-BD30-6C208DD450B7@amazon.com>



On 06/11/2018 04:25 PM, van der Linden, Frank wrote:
> A few comments on this one:
> 
> - obviously this is fairly serious, as it can let corrupted data all the way up to the application

Sure, although anyone relying on CRC checksum for ensuring TCP data integrity
has big troubles ;)

I would rather have a refined version of this patch doing a "goto csum_error" 
so that we properly increment TCP_MIB_CSUMERRORS and TCP_MIB_INERRS 

Thanks !

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11 23:15 [PATCH] tcp: verify the checksum of the first data segment in a new connection Frank van der Linden
2018-06-11 23:25 ` van der Linden, Frank
2018-06-11 23:37   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-06-11 23:43     ` van der Linden, Frank
2018-06-12 21:44       ` van der Linden, Frank

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