[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix IPv4 checksum

Ajit Khaparde ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com
Mon Aug 2 20:04:47 CEST 2021


On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 11:00 AM Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> UDP protocol reserves 0 checksum value for special purposes.
> Other protocols, like IPv4, TCP and SCTP must calculate checksum value
> in software or offload checksum calculation to hardware.
>
> If IPv4 TX checksum offload was off and header checksum was set to 0,
> testpmd csum engine did not calculate checksum value for IPv4, TCP and
> SCTP.
>
> The patch always calculates IPv4, TCP and SCTP TX checksums if it is
> not offloaded.
>
> Fixes: b2a9e4a855d0 ("app/testpmd: fix Tx checksum calculation for tunnel")
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com>
I think this fixes Bug 768?

If yes, please add the tag "Bugzilla ID: 768" to the commit.

> ---
>  app/test-pmd/csumonly.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test-pmd/csumonly.c b/app/test-pmd/csumonly.c
> index bd5ad64a57..607c889359 100644
> --- a/app/test-pmd/csumonly.c
> +++ b/app/test-pmd/csumonly.c
> @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ process_inner_cksums(void *l3_hdr, const struct testpmd_offload_info *info,
>                 } else {
>                         if (tx_offloads & DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_IPV4_CKSUM) {
>                                 ol_flags |= PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM;
> -                       } else if (ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum != 0) {
> +                       } else {
>                                 ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum = 0;
>                                 ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum =
>                                         rte_ipv4_cksum(ipv4_hdr);
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ process_inner_cksums(void *l3_hdr, const struct testpmd_offload_info *info,
>                         ol_flags |= PKT_TX_TCP_SEG;
>                 else if (tx_offloads & DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_CKSUM) {
>                         ol_flags |= PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM;
> -               } else if (tcp_hdr->cksum != 0) {
> +               } else {
>                         tcp_hdr->cksum = 0;
>                         tcp_hdr->cksum =
>                                 get_udptcp_checksum(l3_hdr, tcp_hdr,
> @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ process_inner_cksums(void *l3_hdr, const struct testpmd_offload_info *info,
>                 if ((tx_offloads & DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_SCTP_CKSUM) &&
>                         ((ipv4_hdr->total_length & 0x3) == 0)) {
>                         ol_flags |= PKT_TX_SCTP_CKSUM;
> -               } else if (sctp_hdr->cksum != 0) {
> +               } else {
>                         sctp_hdr->cksum = 0;
>                         /* XXX implement CRC32c, example available in
>                          * RFC3309 */
> --
> 2.32.0
>


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