[PATCH net 3/3] Drivers: net: hyperv: Address UDP checksum issues

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Wed Apr 9 18:39:57 UTC 2014



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem at davemloft.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:37 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com;
> jasowang at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/3] Drivers: net: hyperv: Address UDP checksum
> issues
> 
> From: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:08:47 +0000
> 
> > Thanks Dave. I will COW the SKB before changing the checksum value. I
> > do have a question though.  I looked at a bunch of hardware drivers
> > and they modify the header information, specially checksum field and I
> > could not see where they had COWed the skb. I was grepping for skb_cow
> > in these drivers.
> 
> Look for skb_cow_head(), for example, the tg3.c driver uses this.
> 
Thank you. I will update this patch. Do you want me to resend the whole set or just
this patch.

K. Y


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