Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: donât modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:59 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 04:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > 3.2.80-rc1 review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> I would be careful about this.ÂÂIt causes regressions when sending
> PACKET_SOCKET buffers from user-space to veth devices.
> 
> There was a proposed upstream fix for the regression, but it has not gone
> into the tree as far as I know.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg370436.html
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OK, I'll drop this for now.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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