From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:02:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: mangle zero checksum in skb_checksum_help() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f2e4ad56a65f3b7d64c258e373cb71e8d2499f4;p=linux-beck.git net: mangle zero checksum in skb_checksum_help() Sending zero checksum is ok for TCP, but not for UDP. UDPv6 receiver should by default drop a frame with a 0 checksum, and UDPv4 would not verify the checksum and might accept a corrupted packet. Simply replace such checksum by 0xffff, regardless of transport. This error was caught on SIT tunnels, but seems generic. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 820bac239738..eaad4c28069f 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb) goto out; } - *(__sum16 *)(skb->data + offset) = csum_fold(csum); + *(__sum16 *)(skb->data + offset) = csum_fold(csum) ?: CSUM_MANGLED_0; out_set_summed: skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE; out: