Merge branch 'csums-next'

Tom Herbert says:

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net: Checksum offload changes - Part VI

I am working on overhauling RX checksum offload. Goals of this effort
are:

- Specify what exactly it means when driver returns CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
- Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE through encapsulation layers
- Don't do skb_checksum more than once per packet
- Unify GRO and non-GRO csum verification as much as possible
- Unify the checksum functions (checksum_init)
- Simplify code

What is in this sixth patch set:

- Clarify the specific requirements of devices returning
  CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (comments in skbuff.h).
- Add csum_level field to skbuff. This is used to express how
  many checksums are covered by CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (stores n - 1).
- Change __skb_checksum_validate_needed to "consume" each checksum
  as indicated by csum_level as layers of the the packet are parsed.
- Remove skb_pop_rcv_encapsulation, no longer needed in the new
  csum_level model.
- Allow GRO path to "consume" checksums provided in CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
  and to report new verfied checksums for use in normal path fallback.
- Add proper support to SCTP to accept CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to validate
  header CRC.
- Modify drivers to set skb->csum_level instead of setting
  skb->encapsulation to indicate validation of an encapsulated
  checksum on receive.

v2:

Allocate a new 16 bits for flags in skbuff.

Please review carefully and test if possible, mucking with basic
checksum functions is always a little precarious :-)
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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