In certain cases, napi_get_frags() returns an skb that points to an old
received fragment, This skb may have its skb->ip_summed, csum, and other
fields set from previous fragment handling.
Some network drivers set skb->ip_summed to either CHECKSUM_COMPLETE or
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY when getting skb from napi_get_frags(), while
others only set skb->ip_summed when RX checksum offload is enabled on
the device, and do not set any value for skb->ip_summed when hardware
checksum offload is disabled, assuming that the skb->ip_summed
initiated to zero by napi_reuse_skb, ionic driver for example will
ignore/unset any value for the ip_summed filed if HW checksum offload is
disabled, and if we have a situation where the user disables the
checksum offload during a traffic that could lead to the following
errors shown in the kernel logs:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
__skb_gro_checksum_complete+0x7e/0x90
tcp6_gro_receive+0xc6/0x190
ipv6_gro_receive+0x1ec/0x430
dev_gro_receive+0x188/0x360
? ionic_rx_clean+0x25a/0x460 [ionic]
napi_gro_frags+0x13c/0x300
? __pfx_ionic_rx_service+0x10/0x10 [ionic]
ionic_rx_service+0x67/0x80 [ionic]
ionic_cq_service+0x58/0x90 [ionic]
ionic_txrx_napi+0x64/0x1b0 [ionic]
__napi_poll+0x27/0x170
net_rx_action+0x29c/0x370
handle_softirqs+0xce/0x270
__irq_exit_rcu+0xa3/0xc0
common_interrupt+0x80/0xa0
</IRQ>
This inconsistency sometimes leads to checksum validation issues in the
upper layers of the network stack.
To resolve this, this patch clears the skb->ip_summed value for each
reused skb in by napi_reuse_skb(), ensuring that the caller is responsible
for setting the correct checksum status. This eliminates potential
checksum validation issues caused by improper handling of
skb->ip_summed.
Fixes: 76620aafd6 ("gro: New frags interface to avoid copying shinfo")
Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225112852.2507709-1-mheib@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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