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Patch to my checksum patches.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom May)
Wed Jul 5 20:53:02 1995

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:47:54 -0700
From: ftom@netcom.com (Tom May)
To: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu

Alan,

My version of csum_partial_copyffs() (in 1.3.6) fails on small
packets.  It seems to mess up certain UDP transactions.  Here is a
patch:

--- /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.c.1.3.6	Wed Jul  5 08:56:23 1995
+++ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.c	Wed Jul  5 10:23:32 1995
@@ -175,15 +175,15 @@
 	jz 7f
 	cmpl $2, %%ecx
 	jb 5f
-	movw %%fs:(%%esi), %%dx
+	movw %%fs:(%%esi), %%cx
 	leal 2(%%esi), %%esi
-	movw %%dx, (%%edi)
+	movw %%cx, (%%edi)
 	leal 2(%%edi), %%edi
 	je 6f
 	shll $16,%%edx
-5:	movb %%fs:(%%esi), %%dl
-	movb %%dl, (%%edi)
-6:	addl %%edx, %%eax
+5:	movb %%fs:(%%esi), %%cl
+	movb %%cl, (%%edi)
+6:	addl %%ecx, %%eax
 	adcl $0, %%eax
 7:
 	"
@@ -192,6 +192,3 @@
 	: "bx", "cx", "dx", "si", "di" );
     return(sum);
 }
-
-
-

Tom.

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