Re: MIPS checksum bug

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  Seriously though, I smell a caller somewhere fails to call csum_fold() on
> > the result obtained from csum_partial() where it should, so it would be
> > good to fix the bug rather than trying to cover it.  Bryan, would you be
> > able to track down the caller?
> 
> Not quite.  Internally the IP stack maintains the checksum as a 32-bit
> value for performance sake.  It only folds it to 16-bit when it has to.

 That's been my understanding from my little investigation yesterday
evening, but Bryan's problem has come from somewhere after all and
Atsushi-san's 32-bit addition fix didn't reportedly work while full
folding did, so I have assumed there must be some dependency somewhere
where the final folding does not happen.  I have referred to the original
report concerning SPARC64 now and it seems to narrow the problem down to
the 32 MSBs only, so I would prefer to have any confusion cleared.

 Bryan, can you please verify whether Ralf's fix works for you or not?

  Maciej