Missing csum_fold() in ip6t_HL.c ?

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org
Mon Feb 12 15:47:21 CET 2007


In article <20060915103755.GB5286 at martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> (at Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:37:56 +0400), Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at gmail.com> says:

> It looks like "diffs" array is write-only. It also looks like ipv4
> occurences use some csum_fold() trickery. Was is forgotten here? Should
> "diffs" be removed?

Since we do not have checksum in IPv6 header, we do not need to
adjust checksum when we touch hoplimit.

So, just removing it should be safe.

--yoshfuji



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