From: Yi Zou Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:08:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: net: do not do gso for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in netif_needs_gso X-Git-Tag: v3.4-rc1~177^2~14 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdbee74ce74cd66de42a6f6d0edfa74fa9a66f2a;p=karo-tx-linux.git net: do not do gso for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in netif_needs_gso This is related to fixing the bug of dropping FCoE frames when disabling tx ip checksum by 'ethtool -K ethx tx off'. The FCoE protocol stack driver would use CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY on tx path instead of CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (as indicated in the 2/2 of this series). To do so, netif_needs_gso() has to be changed here to not do gso for both CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. Ref. to original discussion thread: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/146567/ Signed-off-by: Yi Zou Tested-by: Ross Brattain Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 4535a4ea9760..261067b94559 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2657,7 +2657,8 @@ static inline bool netif_needs_gso(struct sk_buff *skb, netdev_features_t features) { return skb_is_gso(skb) && (!skb_gso_ok(skb, features) || - unlikely(skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)); + unlikely((skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) && + (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY))); } static inline void netif_set_gso_max_size(struct net_device *dev,