[ 022/120] bnx2x: fix rx checksum validation for IPv6

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 21:36:43 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit e488921f44765e8ab6c48ca35e3f6b78df9819df ]

Commit d6cb3e41 "bnx2x: fix checksum validation" caused a performance
regression for IPv6. Rx checksum offload does not work. IPv6 packets
are passed to the stack with CHECKSUM_NONE.

The hardware obviously cannot perform IP checksum validation for IPv6,
because there is no checksum in the IPv6 header. This should not prevent
us from setting CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.

Tested on BCM57711.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -571,14 +571,16 @@ drop:
static void bnx2x_csum_validate(struct sk_buff *skb, union eth_rx_cqe *cqe,
struct bnx2x_fastpath *fp)
{
- /* Do nothing if no IP/L4 csum validation was done */
-
+ /* Do nothing if no L4 csum validation was done.
+ * We do not check whether IP csum was validated. For IPv4 we assume
+ * that if the card got as far as validating the L4 csum, it also
+ * validated the IP csum. IPv6 has no IP csum.
+ */
if (cqe->fast_path_cqe.status_flags &
- (ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_IP_XSUM_NO_VALIDATION_FLG |
- ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_L4_XSUM_NO_VALIDATION_FLG))
+ ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_L4_XSUM_NO_VALIDATION_FLG)
return;

- /* If both IP/L4 validation were done, check if an error was found. */
+ /* If L4 validation was done, check if an error was found. */

if (cqe->fast_path_cqe.type_error_flags &
(ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_IP_BAD_XSUM_FLG |


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