netdev - [RFC] net: udp gso error code change

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Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 13:00:11 +0000
From:   Victor Stewart <v@...etag.social>
To:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] net: udp gso error code change

i assume this is might be a no-go because it could(?) break existing
code, but i recently debugged an issue where i'd changed my linux box
at home from ethernet to wifi, (with a few months away from the code),
and suddenly my sendmsg ops were failing with EIO.

turned out the wifi chip doesn't support checksum offloading, and this
was the cause.

but it seems in this situation EIO is a bit misleading/meaningless,
when really the error should be something closer to EOPNOTSUPP?

if there is support for this i can submit a simple patch for udp4/6

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/719fce7539cd3e186598e2aed36325fe892150cf/net/ipv6/udp.c#L1217

if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL || is_udplite ||
dst_xfrm(skb_dst(skb))) {
   kfree_skb(skb);
   return -EIO;
}