[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Ensure packet length matches headers during checksum setup.

Nick Couchman Nick.Couchman at seakr.com
Fri Apr 30 17:06:17 UTC 2010


Works great!  I have checksum offloading, large send offloading, and scatter/gather enabled, and no crashing!

-Nick

>>> On 2010/04/29 at 20:17, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote: 
> During the setup of checksumming pointers we need to make sure that
> the transport headers are in the skb linear data area.  However, we
> don't currently verify that the lengths in the packet headers are
> within the size of the packet.  This makes that check before a
> BUG() check does it for us.
> 
> CC: "Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman at seakr.com>
> ---



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