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Guenter Roeck authored
IPv6 checksum tests with unaligned addresses on 64-bit builds result in unexpected failures. Expected expected == csum_result, but expected == 46591 (0xb5ff) csum_result == 46381 (0xb52d) with alignment offset 1 Oddly enough, the problem disappeared after adding test code into the beginning of csum_ipv6_magic(). As it turns out, the 'sum' parameter of csum_ipv6_magic() is declared as __wsum, which is a 32-bit variable. However, it is treated as 64-bit variable in the 64-bit assembler code. Tests showed that the upper 32 bit of the register used to pass the variable are _not_ cleared when entering the function. This can result in checksum calculation errors. Clearing the upper 32 bit of 'sum' as first operation in the assembler code fixes the problem. Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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