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Commit 018f8258 authored by Wang Shanker's avatar Wang Shanker Committed by David S. Miller
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net: l2tp: fix reversed udp6 checksum flags



This patch fixes a bug which causes the behavior of whether to ignore
udp6 checksum of udp6 encapsulated l2tp tunnel contrary to what
userspace program requests.

When the flag `L2TP_ATTR_UDP_ZERO_CSUM6_RX` is set by userspace, it is
expected that udp6 checksums of received packets of the l2tp tunnel
to create should be ignored. In `l2tp_netlink.c`:
`l2tp_nl_cmd_tunnel_create()`, `cfg.udp6_zero_rx_checksums` is set
according to the flag, and then passed to `l2tp_core.c`:
`l2tp_tunnel_create()` and then `l2tp_tunnel_sock_create()`. In
`l2tp_tunnel_sock_create()`, `udp_conf.use_udp6_rx_checksums` is set
the same to `cfg.udp6_zero_rx_checksums`. However, if we want the
checksum to be ignored, `udp_conf.use_udp6_rx_checksums` should be set
to `false`, i.e. be set to the contrary. Similarly, the same should be
done to `udp_conf.use_udp6_tx_checksums`.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiao Wang <shankerwangmiao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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