[DPDK/testpmd Bug 1514] mlx5 NIC reports checksum unknown when an invalid checksum is present

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https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514

            Bug ID: 1514
           Summary: mlx5 NIC reports checksum unknown when an invalid
                    checksum is present
           Product: DPDK
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: testpmd
          Assignee: dev@dpdk.org
          Reporter: jspewock@iol.unh.edu
  Target Milestone: ---

When running testpmd in verbose mode on a NIC that uses the mlx5_core PMD, if
you send a packet with an invalid IP checksum it will show the ol_flag
`RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_UNKNOWN` when it should be
`RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_BAD`. According to lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
`RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_UNKNOWN` should be shown when there is "no information
about the RX IP checksum" and `RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_BAD` should be shown when
"the IP checksum in the packet is wrong". This leads to an issue currently
where, from verbose output in testpmd, you cannot distinguish between a packet
having a bad checksum and one not being present at all. It should be noted that
this is also the case for L4 and OUTER_L4 checksums as well.

You can reproduce this by sending a scapy packet with the following structure
to the testpmd shell that is forwarding with verbose mode set to 1:

`pakt = Ether() / IP(chksum=0x0)`

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