netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: maintain correct checksum state in conntrack actions

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Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 22:16:31 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lrichard@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: maintain correct checksum state in
 conntrack actions

From: Lance Richardson <lrichard@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:33:18 -0500

> When executing conntrack actions on skbuffs with checksum mode
> CHECKSUM_COMPLETE, the checksum must be updated to account for
> header pushes and pulls. Otherwise we get "hw csum failure"
> logs similar to this (ICMP packet received on geneve tunnel
> via ixgbe NIC):
 ...
> Fixes: 7f8a436eaa2c ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action")
> Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.