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Re: raw ipv6 broken in 2.4.19

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: raw ipv6 broken in 2.4.19
From: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Aug 2002 01:02:21 +0200
Cc: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 03:38, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
>       Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Well, if this is only in combination with zero length, it is not a disaster.
> 
>       May be. It seems there were no such callers but they
> appeared. I'm not sure a comment can avoid further problems.
> As for the fix, we don't see often lengths of 0 and 1 for
> unaligned addrs, it is in the slow path in csum_partial. IMHO,
> it will not hurt if we apply the fix instead of auditing everything.

I applied the patch and now it's working fine, both ping6 and
traceroute6 seems to be working fine.

I'll leave it to you guys to debate this :)

-- 
/Martin

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat
you with experience.


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