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gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:31:29 +0000 (10:31 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:46:19 +0000 (14:46 -0800)
commit86a297d5bd4ffab76518475b9cbe2b62fb2cb1eb
treee09c2d77f476ef4584308510c30601d518d91f68
parentf14fdd91c678a39654053a1ebd29780c4ad03b48
gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates

In some cases we may receive IP packets that are longer than
their stated lengths.  Such packets are never merged in GRO.
However, we may end up computing their checksums incorrectly
and end up allowing packets with a bogus checksum enter our
stack with the checksum status set as verified.

Since such packets are rare and not performance-critical, this
patch simply skips the checksum verification for them.

Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Thanks,
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c