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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: xt_CHECKSUM: avoid bad offload
 warnings on GSO packets
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:40:25 +0200
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Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
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Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:17:22PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Small nit: may I suggest you to call skb_csum_hwoffload_help() instead of
> > > skb_checksum_help(), so that we avoid corrupting SCTP packets in case they
> > > hit xt_CHECKSUM target?
> > 
> > Alternatively we could restrict the target to udp only.
> > 
> > AFAIU the only reason this thing exists is to fix up udp checksum
> > for old dhcp clients that use AF_PACKET without evaluating the extra
> > metadata that indicates when a 'bad' checksum is in fact ok because it
> > is supposed to be filled in by hardware later.
> > 
> > This can happen in virtual environemnt when such skb is directly passed
> > to vm.
> 
> Based on what the documentation and the commit message of the commit
> introducing xt_CHECKSUM module say, it seems so. But I must admit I'm
> not sure where is the target is used and how (and why). In particular,
> our issue was most likely result of
> 
>   https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible-tests/blob/master/test-prepare-host.yml#L196-L197

Sigh.  Ok, that pretty much leaves your patch as the only viable option,
however, I still think the warning isn't useful.

Can you send a v2 with gso check but without warning?

Thanks!