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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-09 12:11:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-09 12:11:37 -0700
commit26acc792c90c6fa1066ba128074b20d2e21790ef (patch)
treef76a821048df22d95b60a7bf98b7259961ed4c31 /Documentation
parent8634de6d254462e6953b7dac772a1df4f44c8030 (diff)
parent8846a125de97f96be64ca234906eedfd26ad778e (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Check klogctl failure correctly, from Colin Ian King. 2) Prevent OOM when under memory pressure in flowcache, from Steffen Klassert. 3) Fix info leak in llc and rtnetlink ifmap code, from Kangjie Lu. 4) Memory barrier and multicast handling fixes in bnxt_en, from Michael Chan. 5) Endianness bug in mlx5, from Daniel Jurgens. 6) Fix disconnect handling in VSOCK, from Ian Campbell. 7) Fix locking of netdev list walking in get_bridge_ifindices(), from Nikolay Aleksandrov. 8) Bridge multicast MLD parser can look at wrong packet offsets, fix from Linus Lüssing. 9) Fix chip hang in qede driver, from Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru. 10) Fix missing setting of encapsulation before inner handling completes in udp_offload code, from Jarno Rajahalme. 11) Missing rollbacks during LAG join and flood configuration failures in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel. 12) Fix error code checks in netxen driver, from Dan Carpenter. 13) Fix key size in new macsec driver, from Sabrina Dubroca. 14) Fix mlx5/VXLAN dependencies, from Arnd Bergmann. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (29 commits) net/mlx5e: make VXLAN support conditional Revert "net/mlx5: Kconfig: Fix MLX5_EN/VXLAN build issue" macsec: key identifier is 128 bits, not 64 Documentation/networking: more accurate LCO explanation macvtap: segmented packet is consumed tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure qede: uninitialized variable in qede_start_xmit() netxen: netxen_rom_fast_read() doesn't return -1 netxen: reversed condition in netxen_nic_set_link_parameters() netxen: fix error handling in netxen_get_flash_block() mlxsw: spectrum: Add missing rollback in flood configuration mlxsw: spectrum: Fix rollback order in LAG join failure udp_offload: Set encapsulation before inner completes. udp_tunnel: Remove redundant udp_tunnel_gro_complete(). qede: prevent chip hang when increasing channels net: ipv6: tcp reset, icmp need to consider L3 domain bridge: fix igmp / mld query parsing net: bridge: fix old ioctl unlocked net device walk VSOCK: do not disconnect socket when peer has shutdown SEND only net/mlx4_en: Fix endianness bug in IPV6 csum calculation ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt14
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt
index de2a327766a7..56e36861245f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt
@@ -69,18 +69,18 @@ LCO: Local Checksum Offload
LCO is a technique for efficiently computing the outer checksum of an
encapsulated datagram when the inner checksum is due to be offloaded.
The ones-complement sum of a correctly checksummed TCP or UDP packet is
- equal to the sum of the pseudo header, because everything else gets
- 'cancelled out' by the checksum field. This is because the sum was
+ equal to the complement of the sum of the pseudo header, because everything
+ else gets 'cancelled out' by the checksum field. This is because the sum was
complemented before being written to the checksum field.
More generally, this holds in any case where the 'IP-style' ones complement
checksum is used, and thus any checksum that TX Checksum Offload supports.
That is, if we have set up TX Checksum Offload with a start/offset pair, we
- know that _after the device has filled in that checksum_, the ones
+ know that after the device has filled in that checksum, the ones
complement sum from csum_start to the end of the packet will be equal to
- _whatever value we put in the checksum field beforehand_. This allows us
- to compute the outer checksum without looking at the payload: we simply
- stop summing when we get to csum_start, then add the 16-bit word at
- (csum_start + csum_offset).
+ the complement of whatever value we put in the checksum field beforehand.
+ This allows us to compute the outer checksum without looking at the payload:
+ we simply stop summing when we get to csum_start, then add the complement of
+ the 16-bit word at (csum_start + csum_offset).
Then, when the true inner checksum is filled in (either by hardware or by
skb_checksum_help()), the outer checksum will become correct by virtue of
the arithmetic.