netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: restrict advertized checksum offloads to just IP

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Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:23:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     shannon.nelson@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: restrict advertized checksum
 offloads to just IP

From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:43:37 -0700

> As much as we'd like to play well with others, we really aren't
> handling the checksums on non-IP protocol packets very well.  This
> is easily seen when trying to do TCP over ipv6 - the checksums are
> garbage.
> 
> Here we restrict the checksum feature flag to just IP traffic so
> that we aren't given work we can't yet do.
> 
> Orabug: 26175391, 26259755
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>

Applied, but this bug must be fixed properly and ipv6 checksumming
properly supported.

Thanks.