netdev - [PATCH V2 net] netdevice: Include NETIF_F_HW

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:17:24 -0400
From:   Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 net] netdevice: Include NETIF_F_HW_CSUM when intersecting features

While hardware device use either NETIF_F_(IP|IPV6)_CSUM or
NETIF_F_HW_CSUM, all of the software devices use HW_CSUM.
This results in an interesting situation when the software
device is configured on top of hw device using (IP|IPV6)_CSUM.
In this situation, the user can't turn off checksum offloading
features on the software device.

This patch resolves that by adding NETIF_F_HW_CSUM to the mask
if a feature set includes only IP|IPV6 csum.  This allows the user
to control the upper (software) device checksum, while at the same
time correctly propagating lower device changes up.

CC: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
CC: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

---

V2: Addressed comments from Alex Duyck.  I tested this with hacked virtio
device that set IP|IPV6 checksums instead of HW.  Configuring a vlan on
top gave the vlan device with 'ip-generic: on' setting (using HW checksum).
This allows me to change vlan checksum offloads independent of virt-io nic.
Changes to virtio-nic propagated up to vlan, turning off the offloading
correctly.

 include/linux/netdevice.h | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index b0aa089..81aed2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -4009,10 +4009,10 @@ static inline netdev_features_t netdev_intersect_features(netdev_features_t f1,
 							  netdev_features_t f2)
 {
 	if ((f1 ^ f2) & NETIF_F_HW_CSUM) {
-		if (f1 & NETIF_F_HW_CSUM)
-			f1 |= (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM|NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM);
-		else
-			f2 |= (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM|NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM);
+		if (f1 & (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM))
+			f1 |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
+		if(f2 & (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM))
+			f2 |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
 	}

 	return f1 & f2;
-- 
2.7.4