ARM: fix csum_tcpudp_magic() miscompilation
There is a miscompilation of csum_tcpudp_magic() due to the way we pass the asm() operands in. Fortunately, this doesn't affect the IP code, but can affect anyone who passes ntohs(udp->len) as the length argument, or protocols with more than 8 bits. The problem stems from passing 16-bit operands into an asm() - GCC makes no guarantees about what may be in the high 16-bits of such a register passed into assembly which is in the "HI" machine mode. Address this by changing the way we handle the 16-bit arguments - since accumulating the protocol and length can never overflow, we can delegate this to the compiler to perform, and then accumulate it into the checksum inside the asm(), taking account of the endian-ness via an appropriate 32-bit rotation. While we are here, also realise that there's a chance to optimise this a little: several callers from IP code pass a constant zero as the initial sum. This is wasteful - if we detect this condition, we can optimise away one instruction. Tested-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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