Subject: Re: Missing csum_fold() in ip6t_HL.c ?

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:52:13 +0100

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
> In article <[email-masked]> (at Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:37:56 +0400), Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]> says:
> 
> 
>>It looks like "diffs" array is write-only. It also looks like ipv4
>>occurences use some csum_fold() trickery. Was is forgotten here? Should
>>"diffs" be removed?
> 
> 
> Since we do not have checksum in IPv6 header, we do not need to
> adjust checksum when we touch hoplimit.
> 
> So, just removing it should be safe.

This already is taken care of. I noticed our listmaster didn't
approve any held messages for a couple of month and am currently
going through the backlog (Alexey's mail is quite old).