From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:04:03 +0800

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> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> 
>> After looking at the actual net-2.6 tree I see that it is actually
>> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL that caused this breakage.
>> 
>> The fact that when this was first implemented we didn't use hw
>> checksums on dataless packets might not have been an oversight
>> after all.
> 
> Looks like I was too quick to blame the hardware, the synack
> code can't handle CHECKSUM_PARTIAL so this is probably the real
> cause.
> 
> I will send patches to fix this.

Thanks a lot for figuring this out.

I'll put my original patch (with fixed commit log message!)
and your fixes into net-next-2.6
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