Re: [PATCH 04/18] csum_and_copy_..._user(): pass 0xffffffff instead of 0 as initial sum
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 17:17:16 EST
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:11 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > But I didn't check. Maybe we don't have anything that stupid in the kernel.
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> I did.
So then the commit message really should have said so, I feel. That
would have avoided the whole worry, and made it clear that it's not an
issue.
Linus