The following is a problematic configuration:
VM1: virtio-net device connected to macvtap0@eth0
VM2: e1000 device connect to macvtap1@eth0
The problem is is that virtio-net supports checksum offloading
and thus sends the packets to the host with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL set.
On the other hand, e1000 does not support any acceleration.
For small TCP packets (and this includes the 3-way handshake),
e1000 ends up receiving packets that only have a partial checksum
set. This causes TCP to fail checksum validation and to drop
packets. As a result tcp connections can not be established.
Commit
3e4f8b787370978733ca6cae452720a4f0c296b8
macvtap: Perform GSO on forwarding path.
fixes this issue for large packets wthat will end up undergoing GSO.
This commit adds a check for the non-GSO case and attempts to
compute the checksum for partially checksummed packets in the
non-GSO case.
CC: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Andrian Nord <nightnord@gmail.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
CC: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
segs = nskb;
}
} else {
+ /* If we receive a partial checksum and the tap side
+ * doesn't support checksum offload, compute the checksum.
+ * Note: it doesn't matter which checksum feature to
+ * check, we either support them all or none.
+ */
+ if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
+ !(features & NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM) &&
+ skb_checksum_help(skb))
+ goto drop;
skb_queue_tail(&q->sk.sk_receive_queue, skb);
}