[UDP]: Select handling of bad checksums.
Alternate workaround for blocking usage of select() by UDP applications. The problem is Linux optimizes the UDP receive checksum path so that checksum validation is not performed until the application read. This is a performance win but can cause applications that do select with blocking file descriptors to get false positives if the received message has a checksum error. There is a long running thread about this on LKML. This patch makes these applications work, but keeps the one-pass performance gain for those applications smart enough to use non-blocking file descriptors with select/poll. There is still a possibility to get a false positive if application does select on non-blocking fd then makes it blocking before doing the receive, but that is unlikely. Tested by injecting bad packets with SOCK_RAW. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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