From: Bob Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:32:57 -0600

> Fix over-optimization by GCC near ip_fast_csum.
> 
> In some cases such as:
>       iph->check = 0;
>       iph->check = ip_fast_csum((unsigned char *)iph, iph->ihl);
> GCC may optimize out the previous store.
> 
> Observed as a failure of NFS over udp (bad checksums on ip fragments) when 
> compiled with GCC 3.4.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thanks for finding this bug, patch applied.

This issue may be why I made ip_fast_csum() non-inlined on
sparc64 :-)
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