net: qualcomm: rmnet: avoid unnecessary byte-swapping
Internet checksums are used for IPv4 header checksum, as well as TCP segment and UDP datagram checksums. Such a checksum represents the negated sum of adjacent pairs of bytes, using ones' complement arithmetic. One property of the Internet checkum is byte order independence [1]. Specifically, the sum of byte-swapped pairs is equal to the result of byte swapping the sum of those same pairs when not byte-swapped. So for example if a, b, c, d, y, and z are hexadecimal digits, and PLUS represents ones' complement addition: If: ab PLUS cd = yz Then: ba PLUS dc = zy For this reason, there is no need to swap the order of bytes in the checksum value held in a message header, nor the one in the QMAPv4 trailer, in order to operate on them. In other words, we can determine whether the hardware-computed checksum matches the one in the message header without any byte swaps. (This patch leaves in place all existing type casts.) [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1071Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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