From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Preparation for the change of calling conventions; right now all callers pass 0 as initial sum. Passing 0xffffffff instead yields the values comparable mod 0xffff and guarantees that 0 will not be returned on success. Note that this relies upon the correct behaviour with arbitrary initial sum and the above pretty much says "it's been untested with anything other than 0". Analysis is unpleasant, to put it mildly, but the suckers _are_ handling it correctly, surprisingly enough. Perhaps not too surprisingly, since most of the instances share the code with csum_partial_copy_nocheck(), which used to get some testing due to icmp_push_reply()... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/iov_iter.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c index 7405922caaec..d5b7e204fea6 100644 --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ size_t csum_and_copy_from_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, __wsum *csum, int err = 0; next = csum_and_copy_from_user(v.iov_base, (to += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, - v.iov_len, 0, &err); + v.iov_len, ~0U, &err); if (!err) { sum = csum_block_add(sum, next, off); off += v.iov_len; @@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ bool csum_and_copy_from_iter_full(void *addr, size_t bytes, __wsum *csum, int err = 0; next = csum_and_copy_from_user(v.iov_base, (to += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, - v.iov_len, 0, &err); + v.iov_len, ~0U, &err); if (err) return false; sum = csum_block_add(sum, next, off); @@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ size_t csum_and_copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, void *csump, int err = 0; next = csum_and_copy_to_user((from += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, v.iov_base, - v.iov_len, 0, &err); + v.iov_len, ~0U, &err); if (!err) { sum = csum_block_add(sum, next, off); off += v.iov_len; -- 2.11.0