RE: [RFC][PATCH] ia64: fix csum_ipv6_magic()

From: Yu, Fenghua
Date: Fri Aug 28 2009 - 17:19:27 EST


>I was seeing "nf_ct_icmpv6: ICMPv6 checksum failed" errors on
>every ICMPv6 packet received. The packets did not pass the
>netfilter checksum verification but they did pass the standard
>verification later and got processed. This happenns with hardware
>checksumming turned off or with adapters that do not checksum
>ICMP packets (e.g. tg3). I tracked the problem down to the ia64
>version of csum_ipv6_magic() introduced by 007d77d0c5. For some
>arguments, it gives differrent results than the generic version.
>
>The following patch fixes the problem for me. IA64 experts, can
>you please have a look?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>[IA64] fix csum_ipv6_magic()
>
>The 32-bit parameters (len and csum) of csum_ipv6_magic() are passed in 64-
>bit
>registers in3 and in4. The high order 32 bits of the registers were never
>cleared, and garbage was sometimes calculated into the checksum.
>
>Fix this by clearing the high order 32 bits of the registers.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
>
>diff --git a/arch/ia64/lib/ip_fast_csum.S b/arch/ia64/lib/ip_fast_csum.S
>index 1f86aeb..9a8d23f 100644
>--- a/arch/ia64/lib/ip_fast_csum.S
>+++ b/arch/ia64/lib/ip_fast_csum.S
>@@ -96,20 +96,22 @@ END(ip_fast_csum)
> GLOBAL_ENTRY(csum_ipv6_magic)
> ld4 r20=[in0],4
> ld4 r21=[in1],4
>- dep r15=in3,in2,32,16
>+ zxt4 in3=in3
> ;;
> ld4 r22=[in0],4
> ld4 r23=[in1],4
>- mux1 r15=r15,@rev
>+ dep r15=in3,in2,32,16
> ;;
> ld4 r24=[in0],4
> ld4 r25=[in1],4
>- shr.u r15=r15,16
>+ mux1 r15=r15,@rev
> add r16=r20,r21
> add r17=r22,r23
>+ zxt4 in4=in4
> ;;
> ld4 r26=[in0],4
> ld4 r27=[in1],4
>+ shr.u r15=r15,16
> add r18=r24,r25
> add r8=r16,r17
> ;;

Looks good to me. Do you know the caller function for the failed csum_ipv6_magic()?

Thanks.

-Fenghua
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