Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: pskb_trim_rcsum() and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are friends"

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On 06/15/2018 11:56 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> This reverts commit 88078d98d1bb085d72af8437707279e203524fa5.
> 
> It causes regressions for people using chips driven by the sungem
> driver. Suspicion is that the skb->csum value isn't being adjusted
> properly.
> 
> Symptoms as seen on G4+sungem are:
> 
> [   34.023281] eth0: hw csum failure
> [   34.023438] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.17.0+ #2
> [   34.023618] Call Trace:
> [   34.023707] [dffedbd0] [c069ddac] __skb_checksum_complete+0xf0/0x108 (unreliable)
> [   34.023948] [dffedbf0] [c0777a70] tcp_v4_rcv+0x604/0xe00
> [   34.024118] [dffedc70] [c0731624] ip_local_deliver_finish+0xa8/0x3c4
> [   34.024315] [dffedcb0] [c0732430] ip_local_deliver+0xf0/0x154
> [   34.024493] [dffedcf0] [c07328dc] ip_rcv+0x448/0x774
> [   34.024653] [dffedd50] [c06aeae0] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x5e8/0x1184
> [   34.024857] [dffedde0] [c06bba20] napi_gro_receive+0x160/0x22c
> [   34.025044] [dffede10] [e14b2590] gem_poll+0x7fc/0x1ac0 [sungem]
> [   34.025228] [dffedee0] [c06bacf0] net_rx_action+0x34c/0x618
> [   34.025402] [dffedf60] [c07fd27c] __do_softirq+0x16c/0x5f0
> [   34.025575] [dffedfd0] [c0064c7c] irq_exit+0x110/0x1a8
> [   34.025738] [dffedff0] [c0016170] call_do_irq+0x24/0x3c
> [   34.025903] [c0cf7e80] [c0009a84] do_IRQ+0x98/0x1a0
> [   34.026055] [c0cf7eb0] [c001b474] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14
> [   34.026225] --- interrupt: 501 at arch_cpu_idle+0x30/0x78
>                    LR = arch_cpu_idle+0x30/0x78
> [   34.026510] [c0cf7f70] [c0cf6000] 0xc0cf6000 (unreliable)
> [   34.026682] [c0cf7f80] [c00a3868] do_idle+0xc4/0x158
> [   34.026835] [c0cf7fb0] [c00a3ab0] cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x28
> [   34.027013] [c0cf7fc0] [c0998820] start_kernel+0x47c/0x490
> [   34.027181] [c0cf7ff0] [00003444] 0x3444
> 
> See commit 7ce5a27f2ef8 ("Revert "net: Handle CHECKSUM_COMPLETE more
> adequately in pskb_trim_rcsum()."") for previous reference.

This fix seems to hide a bug in csum functions on this architecture.

Or a bug on this NIC when receiving a small packet (less than 60 bytes).
Maybe the padding bytes are not included in NIC provided csum, and not 0.