Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:45:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber |
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On 09/30/2009 04:22 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:19:39 -0700 > >> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> >> >> Just like ip_fast_csum, the assembly snippet in csum_ipv6_magic needs a >> memory clobber, as it is only passed the address of the buffer, not a >> memory reference to the buffer itself. >> >> This caused failures in Hurd's pfinetv4 when we tried to compile it with >> gcc-4.3 (bogus checksums). >> >> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > I'm happy to see this go in via the x86 tree, and thus: > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
I'll put it in x86/urgent tonight or early tomorrow morning (just about to leave for the airport.)
-hpa
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