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Re: skb_checksum_help

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: skb_checksum_help
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:38:07 -0800
Cc: herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tgraf@xxxxxxx, kaber@xxxxxxxxx, david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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References: <20050124005348.GL23931@postel.suug.ch> <E1Cst4o-0007bD-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> <20050123202715.281ac87c.davem@davemloft.net>
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:27:15 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If some code underruns
> skb->data somehow while unfragging/refragging, that's a sure
> fire way to corrupt things such as the skb->ip_summed field.

Ignore this, I'm wrong.  We allocate sk_buff and skb->data
seperately, so this can't happen.

I'm really showing my age, because many moons ago we did
allocate them together :-)

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