From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:05:45 -0500

> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:57:53 -0700
>> 
>> > VXLAN device can receive skb with checksum partial. But the checksum
>> > offset could be in outer header which is pulled on receive. This results
>> > in negative checksum offset for the skb. Such skb can cause the assert
>> > failure in skb_checksum_help(). Following patch fixes the bug by setting
>> > checksum-none while pulling outer header.
>> > 
>> > Following is the kernel panic msg from old kernel hitting the bug.
>>  ...
>> > Reported-by: Anupam Chanda <acha...@vmware.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
>> 
>> Applied, thanks.
> 
> 
> It looks like we also should clear skb->csum ?
> 
> __skb_checksum_complete() definitely would be confused by garbage in
> skb->csum

Pravin, please take a look at this.
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