Thanks, I send a patch, which will revert commit 6e7bc478c9a0 in net-next.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> @@ -2670,6 +2670,7 @@ static inline bool skb_needs_check(struct
>>> sk_buff *skb, bool tx_path)
>>> {
>>> if (tx_path)
>>> return skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
>>> + skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY &&
>>> skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_NONE;
>>
>> Good catch. Only, the CHECKSUM_NONE case was added specifically to
>> work around this UFO issue on the tx path in commit 6e7bc478c9a0
>> ("net: skb_needs_check() accepts CHECKSUM_NONE for tx"). If we change
>> the value generated by UFO, we can remove that statement, so
>>
>> + skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
>> - skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_NONE;
>>
>> Else the entire check becomes a NOOP. These are the only three valid
>> states on tx. With very few codepaths generating CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
>> to begin with, it arguably already is practically a NOOP. I need to
>> look more closely what the statement is intended to protect against,
>> before we relax it even further.
>
> On transmit, packets entering skb_gso_segment are expected to always
> have ip_summed CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. This check was added to track down
> unexpected exceptions in commit 67fd1a731ff1 ("net: Add debug info to
> track down GSO checksum bug").
>
> Only when called for the second time, after skb_mac_gso_segment, do we
> have to possibly handle the case where the GSO layer computes the
> checksum and changes ip_summed.
>
> Since this only goes into 4.11 to 4.13, making two separate
> skb_needs_check variants for these two call sites seems overkill. I
> will send the simple fix to convert CHECKSUM_NONE to
> CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
>
> As a side effect of removing UFO in 4.14-rc1, we can also revert
> commit 6e7bc478c9a0 ("net: skb_needs_check() accepts CHECKSUM_NONE for
> tx") in net-next.
