On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:31 AM David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:18:50 -0700
>
> > After commit 88078d98d1bb ("net: pskb_trim_rcsum() and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
> > are friends"), sungem owners reported the infamous "eth0: hw csum failure"
> > message.
> >
> > CHECKSUM_COMPLETE has in fact never worked for this driver, but this
> > was masked by the fact that upper stacks had to strip the FCS, and
> > therefore skb->ip_summed was set back to CHECKSUM_NONE before
> > my recent change.
> >
> > Driver configures a number of bytes to skip when the chip computes
> > the checksum, and for some reason only half of the Ethernet header
> > was skipped.
> >
> > Then a second problem is that we should strip the FCS by default,
> > unless the driver is updated to eventually support NETIF_F_RXFCS in
> > the future.
> >
> > Finally, a driver should check if NETIF_F_RXCSUM feature is enabled
> > or not, so that the admin can turn off rx checksum if wanted.
> >
> > Many thanks to Andreas Schwab and Mathieu Malaterre for their
> > help in debugging this issue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Meelis Roos <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
> > Tested-by: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
>
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.
Thanks for the stable tag.
IMHO the commit message should have also reference commit 7ce5a27f2ef8
("Revert "net: Handle CHECKSUM_COMPLETE more adequately in
pskb_trim_rcsum().""). Which means that commit 88078d98d1bb ("net:
pskb_trim_rcsum() and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are friends") should be ready
for stable also, since it seems that the only driver responsible for
the revert was sungem.
my 2cts
