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<p class="MsoNormal">> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Su Sai <susai.ss@bytedance.com><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Sent: Thursday 31 July 2025 12:32<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> To: Marat Khalili <marat.khalili@huawei.com>; jasvinder.singh@intel.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Cc: dev@dpdk.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Subject: Re: [External] RE: [PATCH] net/cksum: compute raw cksum for several segments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Hi Marat Khalili,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Thanks for your comments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> We found small TCP checksum errors pkts online, then were traced to issues within the rte_raw_cksum_mbuf function.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> This error can be reproduced as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 1. In the client ECS with an MTU of 1500, initiate traffic using the command "iperf3 -c {dst ip} -b 1m -M 125 -t 8000".
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<p class="MsoNormal">> 2. In the destination ECS, the InCsumErrors statistic can be viewed using the command "netstat -st | grep -i csum". The erroneous packets can also be confirmed via the tcpdump command.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> The following is a detailed description of a captured erroneous packet. The hex stream of the packet is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 00163e0b6bd2eeffffffffff0800450000a50d7a40004006b94bc0a8f91dc0a8f91ed5d2145146f9d990e10d6a2d8010020040a200000101080a95ac86ba091145d3ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> This is a packet in the format of eth + ipv4 + tcp + payload.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> The process leading to the error is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 1. Due to the small MSS, TSO fragmentation was triggered, generating 3 mbufs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 2. The data_len of the first mbuf is 66 bytes, containing the Ethernet header, IPv4 header, and TCP header.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 3. The data_len of the second mbuf is 61 bytes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 4. The data_len of the third mbuf is 52 bytes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 5. When calculating the checksum of the TCP header for such an mbuf chain using the rte_raw_cksum_mbuf function, the tmp value obtained during the calculation of the third mbuf is 0x19FFE6.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> 6. After applying rte_bswap16, tmp becomes 0xE6FF, with 0x19 discarded. This results in an incorrect final checksum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Meanwhile, we have also found that when enable jumbo frame, the payload becomes longer. In the process of rte_raw_cksum_mbuf handling an mbuf chain<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">，</span>due to the relatively large value
of tmp, overflow will occur in the accumulated sum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the detailed description. I think both the bug and the fix are valid. Adding automated tests reproducing scenarios you described to app/test would help a lot, but I don’t know if you have cycles for this (I heard that AI is moderately
good in generating test cases these days). I will ack your patch and let’s see what others say.<o:p></o:p></p>
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