netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: macb: Disable TX checksum offloading on all Zynq

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:06:58 +0200
From:   Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>
To:     Jennifer Dahm <jennifer.dahm@...com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Michal Simek <michals@...inx.com>,
        Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@...inx.com>
CC:     Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: macb: Disable TX checksum offloading on all
 Zynq

On 25/05/2018 at 23:44, Jennifer Dahm wrote:
> The Zynq ethernet hardware has checksum offloading bugs that cause
> small UDP packets (<= 2 bytes) to be sent with an incorrect checksum
> (0xffff) and forwarded UDP packets to be re-checksummed, which is
> illegal behavior. The best solution we have right now is to disable
> hardware TX checksum offloading entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jennifer Dahm <jennifer.dahm@...com>

Adding some xilinx people I know...

> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> index a5d564b..e8cc68a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> @@ -3807,7 +3807,8 @@ static const struct macb_config zynqmp_config = {
>   };
>   
>   static const struct macb_config zynq_config = {
> -	.caps = MACB_CAPS_GIGABIT_MODE_AVAILABLE | MACB_CAPS_NO_GIGABIT_HALF,
> +	.caps = MACB_CAPS_GIGABIT_MODE_AVAILABLE | MACB_CAPS_NO_GIGABIT_HALF
> +	      | MACB_CAPS_DISABLE_TX_HW_CSUM,
>   	.dma_burst_length = 16,
>   	.clk_init = macb_clk_init,
>   	.init = macb_init,
> 


-- 
Nicolas Ferre