[PATCH] uml: fix critical IP checksum corruption
From: Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg@linbit.com> Add a memory barrier to the assembly checksum code - the code was copied straight from the i386 one, and the patch resyncs the code with the original. I'll check if the original code can be included directly (i.e. "#include") after 2.6.9. Without this patch, every 2.6 UML release corrupts the checksum of every UDP fragmented packet with size >= MTU (verified by various people, we all agree on this issue; nobody reported "Works fine here"). The corrupted packets are not accepted, thus blocking any kind of communication with large-sized UDP packets. In fact, I've even dissected the UML -> host traffic before and after this patch with Ethereal - and it always reported an incorrect checksum for fragmented UDP packets before and always correct after applying the patch. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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