Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_queue: add NFQA_SKB_CSUM_NOTVERIFIED info flag

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Hi Florian,

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:48:09PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> The common case is that TCP/IP checksums have already been
> verified, e.g. by hardware (rx checksum offload), or conntrack.
> 
> Userspace can use this flag to determine when the checksum
> has not been validated yet.
> 
> If the flag is set, this doesn't necessarily mean that the packet has
> an invalid checksum, e.g. if NIC doesn't support rx checksum.
> 
> Userspace that sucessfully enabled NFQA_CFG_F_GSO queue feature flag can
> infer that IP/TCP checksum has already been validated if either the
> SKB_INFO attribute is not present or the NFQA_SKB_CSUM_NOTVERIFIED
> flag is unset.

I have applied this patch to nf-next, thanks.
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