From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:02:36 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> 
> Sending zero checksum is ok for TCP, but not for UDP.
> 
> UDPv6 receiver should by default drop a frame with a 0 checksum,
> and UDPv4 would not verify the checksum and might accept a corrupted
> packet.
> 
> Simply replace such checksum by 0xffff, regardless of transport.
> 
> This error was caught on SIT tunnels, but seems generic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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