From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:10:13 -0800
> When an ethernet frame is padded to meet the minimum ethernet frame
> size, the padding octets are not covered by the hardware checksum.
> Fortunately the padding octets are ususally zero's, which don't affect
> checksum. However, we have a switch which pads non-zero octets, this
> causes kernel hardware checksum fault repeatedly.
>
> Prior to commit 88078d98d1bb ("net: pskb_trim_rcsum() and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
> are friends"),
> skb checksum is forced to be CHECKSUM_NONE when padding is detected.
> After it, we need to keep skb->csum updated, like what we do for FCS.
>
> The logic is a bit complicated when dealing with both FCS and padding,
> so I wrap it up in a helper function mlx5e_csum_padding().
>
> I tested this patch with RXFCS on and off, it works fine without any
> warning in both cases.
>
> Fixes: 88078d98d1bb ("net: pskb_trim_rcsum() and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are
> friends"),
> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Saeed, are you going to take care of this?
