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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 10:44:53 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Michael Spang <spang@...omium.org>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Fix checksum errors when ip_summed is
 CHECKSUM_PARTIAL

On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Spang wrote:
> Changing ip_summed from CHECKSUM_PARTIAL to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
> will result in an incorrect checksum if the packet is sent off the box.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <spang@...omium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
> index 753a8c2..806b56a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
> @@ -267,7 +267,9 @@ static int macvlan_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  	if (vlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE) {
>  		const struct ethhdr *eth = (void *)skb->data;
> -		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
> +
> +		if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE)
> +			skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
>  
>  		/* send to other bridge ports directly */
>  		if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {

Hi Michael

Any idea why commit 12a2856b604476c27d85a5f9a57ae1661fc46019
added this stuff then ?

You should give more infos of your use case.

CC Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>

I removed stable@ , as stable submissions are not done like that.


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