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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Revert: add new libnetfilter_queue API for libmnl
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:30:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130426103018.GF32324@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130426101212.GA18251@localhost>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> Looks good, only missing some explanation in the doxygen documentation
> on the "csum not ready" thing.

Thanks. I amended it:

--- a/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
+++ b/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
@@ -639,6 +639,23 @@ int nfq_set_mode(struct nfq_q_handle *qh,
  * - NFQA_CFG_F_CONNTRACK (requires Linux kernel >= 3.6): the kernel will
  *   include the Connection Tracking system information.
  *
+ * - NFQA_CFG_F_GSO (requires Linux kernel >= 3.10): the kernel will
+ *   not normalize offload packets, i.e. your application will need to
+ *   be able to handle packets larger than the mtu (up to 64k).
+ *
+ *   If your application validates checksums (e.g., tcp checksum),
+ *   then you must also check if the NFQA_SKB_INFO attribute is present.
+ *   If it is, you need to test the NFQA_SKB_CSUMNOTREADY bit:
+ * \verbatim
+       if (attr[NFQA_SKB_INFO]) {
+               uint32_t info = ntohl(mnl_attr_get_u32(attr[NFQA_SKB_INFO]));
+               if (info & NFQA_SKB_CSUMNOTREADY)
+                       validate_checksums = false;
+       }
+\endverbatim
+ *  if this bit is set, the layer 3/4 checksums of the packet appear incorrect,
+ *  but are not (because they will be corrected later by the kernel).
+ *
  * Here's a little code snippet to show how to use this API:
  * \verbatim

I'll wait for a couple of more days before pushing the patches to
give others a chance to review them.

Cheers,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-26 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25 10:43 [PATCH 0/4] libnetfilter_queue: gso handling support Florian Westphal
2013-04-25 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] Revert: add new libnetfilter_queue API for libmnl Florian Westphal
2013-04-26  1:36   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-04-26  7:32     ` Florian Westphal
2013-04-26  9:37       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-04-26 10:02         ` Florian Westphal
2013-04-26 10:12           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-04-26 10:30             ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2013-04-25 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] examples/nf-queue: handle recv error, use larger buffer Florian Westphal
2013-04-26  1:42   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-04-26  7:27     ` Florian Westphal
2013-04-25 10:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] src: add new GSO handling capabilities Florian Westphal
2013-04-25 10:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] examples/nf-queue: receive large gso packets Florian Westphal

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