netdev - Re: [Lxc-users] Bad checksums and lost packets with macvlan on dummy

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:51:14 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Andrian Nord <nightnord@...il.com>,
	lxc-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lxc-users] Bad checksums and lost packets with macvlan on dummy

On 01.03.2011 14:29, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 08:45 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> In the normal case, dummy0 is supposed to drop the packets. But with
>>> macvlan these packets are broadcasted to the other macvlan ports, so no
>>> checksum is computed when the packets are transmitted between macvlan1
>>> and macvlan2.
>> So where frames get bad checksums ?
>>
>> In this "bridge" mode, I suspect the broadcast is done _before_ sending
>> frame to dummy, so maybe macvlan should not inherit from lowerdev in
>> this particular case ?
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> yes, you are right, the packets are sent before.
> 
> In the 'macvlan_queue_xmit', the code checks the dev is in 'bridge'
> mode. If so, it looks if there is a destination port for the packet and
> then calls the 'forward' callback which is 'dev_forward_skb'.
> 
> I was able to reproduce the same problem with qemu and an emulated
> 'e1000' card instead of dummy0. The packets are dropped too.
> 
> Patrick, do you have any suggestions to fix this ?

Since the frames are only looped back locally, I suppose the easiest
fix would be to mark them with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. Alternatively
we need to complete the checksum manually, similar to what
dev_hard_start_xmit() does.
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