Re: sparc oops in ip_fast_csum

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:22:04 +1100

> [IPV4] raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph->ihl 
> 
> We currently check that iph->ihl is bounded by the real length and that
> the real length is greater than the minimum IP header length.  However,
> we did not check the caes where iph->ihl is less than the minimum IP
> header length.
> 
> This breaks because some ip_fast_csum implementations assume that which
> is quite reasonable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, I'll push this to -stable too, thanks Herbert.
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