Re: [RFC] net: selftests: Adding TX checksum offload validation

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:02 +0200 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> While working with the smsc95xx driver, I identified a need for better
> validation of the driver and hardware TX checksum offloading capabilities. I
> believe a generic test suite for this would benefit other drivers as well.
> 
> The generic selftest framework in net/core/selftests.c seems like the ideal
> location. It already contains a test for the RX checksum path, so adding
> validation for the TX path feels like a natural extension.
> 
> Here is the list of test cases I propose to add:
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, TCP, Standard MTU Packet
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, UDP, Standard MTU Packet
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, ICMP, Standard Payload
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, TCP, Minimal Size Packet (1-byte payload)
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, UDP, Minimal Size Packet (1-byte payload)
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, UDP, Zero-Checksum Payload (Verify checksum becomes
>                               0xFFFF)
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, TCP, With Single VLAN Tag
> - TX csum offload, IPv4, TCP, With Double VLAN Tag (Q-in-Q)
> - TX csum offload, IPv6, TCP, Standard MTU Packet
> - TX csum offload, IPv6, UDP, Standard MTU Packet

The in-kernel tests are best for things which are hard to trigger from
user space. Have you seen tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/csum.py
and tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/csum.c ?