[PATCH v2] powerpc/32: fix csum_partial_copy_generic()

[Alessio Igor Bogani]

Scott,

On 4 August 2016 at 05:53, Scott Wood <oss at buserror.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 10:07 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> commit 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic()
>> based on copy_tofrom_user()") introduced a bug when destination
>> address is odd and initial csum is not null
>>
>> In that (rare) case the initial csum value has to be rotated one byte
>> as well as the resulting value is
>>
>> This patch also fixes related comments
>>
>> Fixes: 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic()
>> based on copy_tofrom_user()")
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
>> ---
>>  v2: updated comments as suggested by Segher
>>
>>  arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S | 7 ++++---
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Alessio, can you confirm whether this fixes the problem you reported?

No unfortunately.

Ciao,
Alessio