Re: 4.4.1 skb_warn_bad_offload+0xc5/0x110

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Please keep me in CC.

Wakko Warner wrote:
> 
> Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > [full-quote for netdev]
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 16.02.2016 01:08, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > >I've been seeing the following on some of my VMs ran under qemu.  The VMs do
> > >not have internet connectivity.  This happened when some files were accessed
> > >via NFS to another VM (NOTE: Both VMs throw these warnings.  Both VMs are
> > >running the exact same kernel).  The host is also throwing these warnings
> > >and is also 4.4.1, but not the same kernel build.
> > >
> > >The issue appears to have gone away if I issue the following on the guests
> > >and on the host (except br0 instead of eth0 on host)
> > >ethtool -K eth0 gso off gro off ufo off tso off
> > >
> > >On the host, br0 does not have any interfaces enslaved except for the
> > >interface for the VMs and also does not have an IPv4 address assigned.
> > >
> 
> > Can you try the following patch?
> > 
> > --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > @@ -1233,6 +1233,9 @@ ssize_t   ip_append_page(struct sock *sk,
> > struct flowi4 *fl4, struct page *page,
> >         if (!skb)
> >                 return -EINVAL;
> > 
> > +       if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> > +
> >         cork->length += size;
> >         if ((size + skb->len > mtu) &&
> >             (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP) &&
> 
> Still received the warning.  I saw it on the host and on one of the VMs.
> The VM in this case was an nfs server.  The client did not receive the
> warning.  I should mention that I'm using v3 and udp on the client for the
> mount options.
> 
> I'm not sure if this change effected nfsd on one of the VMs, it isn't working
> at all on it.

I reverted back to the previous kernel for the VM only and the nfsd on the
one VM started working.

I should note that when I added this change, I only compiled the kernel and
copied the bzImage file.  I did not recompile any modules nor copy the
system.map over.

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