On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:19:21PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 10/26/2014 09:52 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Setting skb->protocol to a private protocol type may result in warning > > messages such as > > e1000e 0000:00:19.0 em1: checksum_partial proto=dada! > > > > This happens if the L3 protocol is IP or IPv6 and skb->ip_summed is set > > to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. Looking through the code, it appears that changing > > skb->protocol for transmitted packets is not necessary and may actually > > be harmful. Drop it. > > You could emphasize that overriding skb->protocol prevents purposely > unmodified (from a DSA perspective) network drivers from properly > setting up their transmit checksum offload pointers since they inspect > skb->protocol to setup the IPv4 header or IPv6 header pointers. > Ok, I'll do that.
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