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Don't overwrite buffer when computing checksum via IPV6_CHECKSUM
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Authored by tuexen on Apr 19 2019, 4:36 PM.
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When computing the checksum for a packet to be sent, ensure you have enough bytes in the packet to write the checksum. The existing check was wrong (off by one error) and would result in writing one byte after the packet buffer.

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Can you please improve the description before committing stating that it's related to rip6_output().

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 19 2019, 4:58 PM
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In D19967#429234, @bz wrote:

Can you please improve the description before committing stating that it's related to rip6_output().

Done.