Re: Kernel 5.1 breaks UDP checksums for SIP packets

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:28:02PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > when I update my Firewall from Kernel 5.0 to Kernel 5.1, SIP clients
> > that connect from the internal network to an external, commercial SIP
> > service do not work any more. When I trace beyond the NAT, I see that
> > the outgoing SIP packets have incorrect UDP checksums:
> 
> I'm a moron.  Can you please try this patch?
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_helper.c b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_helper.c
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_helper.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_helper.c
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ nf_nat_mangle_udp_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	if (!udph->check && skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
>  		return true;
>  
> -	nf_nat_csum_recalc(skb, nf_ct_l3num(ct), IPPROTO_TCP,
> +	nf_nat_csum_recalc(skb, nf_ct_l3num(ct), IPPROTO_UDP,
>  			   udph, &udph->check, datalen, oldlen);
>  
>  	return true;

Thanks for the lightning fast reaction. The patch indeed fixes the issue
for me, everything is online now, incoming and outgoing calls are
possible. Can you funnel that one to Greg please for the next stable
release?

Greetings
Marc

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