netdev - Re: [net 2/2] net: fix a bug of dropping FCoE frames when disabling tx ip checksum

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Message-Id: <20120314.145329.240390897242258725.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:53:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yi.zou@...el.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net 2/2] net: fix a bug of dropping FCoE frames when
 disabling tx ip checksum

From: "Zou, Yi" <yi.zou@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:48:03 +0000

> CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY sounds good to me, if it's ok to be used on the tx path
> as well, I think so but I am not 100% sure, it'd resolve this for fcoe and sctp
> like, downside is it's a bigger change that requires corresponding changes in
> these protocol driver stacks as well.

This is definitely the way this bug should be fixed, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL should
never be set for packets outside of the domain that value was designed for.
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