From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: don't set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on xmit Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20170120002916-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20170117181351.98291-1-rolf.neugebauer@docker.com> <20170117202515-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <34158479-8d4a-3761-a02e-66c474aca53e@redhat.com> <20170118171726-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <4993cc72-54ab-a74d-cd39-034cff55613f@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Rolf Neugebauer , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Jason Wang Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56356 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492AbdASWhZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:37:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4993cc72-54ab-a74d-cd39-034cff55613f@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:06:59AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2017年01月18日 23:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:54:21AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2017年01月18日 02:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 06:13:51PM +0000, Rolf Neugebauer wrote: > > > > > This patch part reverts fd2a0437dc33 and e858fae2b0b8 which introduced a > > > > > subtle change in how the virtio_net flags are derived from the SKBs > > > > > ip_summed field. > > > > > > > > > > With the above commits, the flags are set to VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID > > > > > when ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY, thus treating it differently to > > > > > ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE, which should be the same. > > > > > > > > > > Further, the virtio spec 1.0 / CS04 explicitly says that > > > > > VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID must not be set by the driver. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer > > > > Fixes: fd2a0437dc33 ("virtio_net: introduce virtio_net_hdr_{from,to}_skb") > > > > Fixes: e858fae2b0b8 (" virtio_net: use common code for virtio_net_hdr and skb GSO conversion") > > > > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > > > > > > > > Should be backported into stable as well. > > > Looks like a side effect is that we will never see this on receive path? > > I thought receive path is using virtio_net_hdr_to_skb - isn't it? > > > > The problem is tun use this on xmit. > > Thanks Oh I missed that. I agree, let's add a flag that allows this. -- MST