[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net: prepare the outer ipv4 hdr for checksum

Mohsin Kazmi mohsin.kazmi14 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 19:06:58 CEST 2021


Preparation the headers for the hardware offload
misses the outer ipv4 checksum offload.
It results in bad checksum computed by hardware NIC.

This patch fixes the issue by setting the outer ipv4
checksum field to 0.

Fixes: 4fb7e803eb1a ("ethdev: add Tx preparation")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Mohsin Kazmi <mohsin.kazmi14 at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
---
 lib/net/rte_net.h | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/net/rte_net.h b/lib/net/rte_net.h
index 434435ffa2..e47365099e 100644
--- a/lib/net/rte_net.h
+++ b/lib/net/rte_net.h
@@ -128,8 +128,18 @@ rte_net_intel_cksum_flags_prepare(struct rte_mbuf *m, uint64_t ol_flags)
 	if (!(ol_flags & (PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM | PKT_TX_L4_MASK | PKT_TX_TCP_SEG)))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (ol_flags & (PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV4 | PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV6))
+	if (ol_flags & (PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV4 | PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV6)) {
 		inner_l3_offset += m->outer_l2_len + m->outer_l3_len;
+		/*
+		 * prepare outer ipv4 header checksum by setting it to 0,
+		 * in order to be computed by hardware NICs.
+		 */
+		if (ol_flags & PKT_TX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM) {
+			ipv4_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod_offset(m,
+					struct rte_ipv4_hdr *, m->outer_l2_len);
+			ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum = 0;
+		}
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if headers are fragmented.
-- 
2.17.1



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