netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: fix incorrect receive checksum offloading

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: fix incorrect receive checksum offloading

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:32:47 -0700

> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> 
> The Hyper-V netvsc driver was looking at the incorrect status bits
> in the checksum info. It was setting the receive checksum unnecessary
> flag based on the IP header checksum being correct. The checksum
> flag is skb is about TCP and UDP checksum status. Because of this
> bug, any packet received with bad TCP checksum would be passed
> up the stack and to the application causing data corruption.
> The problem is reproducible via netcat and netem.
> 
> This had a side effect of not doing receive checksum offload
> on IPv6. The driver was also also always doing checksum offload
> independent of the checksum setting done via ethtool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.