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| author | Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com> | 2017-05-18 15:44:41 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-05-19 19:21:29 -0400 |
| commit | 43c26a1a45938624fb9301e8bf7dfabbed293619 (patch) | |
| tree | 3989a9aa42c468ea4121b3c7886eb7e64e561420 /include/linux/skbuff.h | |
| parent | dba003067a43a9699bef0c4bdbe320ece5a109b8 (diff) | |
net: more accurate checksumming in validate_xmit_skb()
skb_csum_hwoffload_help() uses netdev features and skb->csum_not_inet to
determine if skb needs software computation of Internet Checksum or crc32c
(or nothing, if this computation can be done by the hardware). Use it in
place of skb_checksum_help() in validate_xmit_skb() to avoid corruption
of non-GSO SCTP packets having skb->ip_summed equal to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL.
While at it, remove references to skb_csum_off_chk* functions, since they
are not present anymore in Linux _ see commit cf53b1da73bd ("Revert
"net: Add driver helper functions to determine checksum offloadability"").
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index a43d2086bb7f..43d7ca07b2ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -162,14 +162,11 @@ * * NETIF_F_IP_CSUM and NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM are being deprecated in favor of * NETIF_F_HW_CSUM. New devices should use NETIF_F_HW_CSUM to indicate - * checksum offload capability. If a device has limited checksum capabilities - * (for instance can only perform NETIF_F_IP_CSUM or NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM as - * described above) a helper function can be called to resolve - * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. The helper functions are skb_csum_off_chk*. The helper - * function takes a spec argument that describes the protocol layer that is - * supported for checksum offload and can be called for each packet. If a - * packet does not match the specification for offload, skb_checksum_help - * is called to resolve the checksum. + * checksum offload capability. + * skb_csum_hwoffload_help() can be called to resolve CHECKSUM_PARTIAL based + * on network device checksumming capabilities: if a packet does not match + * them, skb_checksum_help or skb_crc32c_help (depending on the value of + * csum_not_inet, see item D.) is called to resolve the checksum. * * CHECKSUM_NONE: * |