[PATCH 1/5] qede: fix tunnel checksums offload flags

edwin.brossette at 6wind.com edwin.brossette at 6wind.com
Tue Apr 22 17:51:39 CEST 2025


From: Didier Pallard <didier.pallard at 6wind.com>

In tunnel case, L3 bad checksum is properly setting
RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM_BAD while all other flags are set in inner
part of offload flags, this can cause both L4 flags BAD and GOOD to be set
in inner offloads when a tunnel packet is processed, changing these flags
to RTE_MBUF_F_RX_L4_CKSUM_NONE instead of GOOD/BAD values. This in turn can
cause upper layers to take incorrect decision on what to do with the
packet.

Remove IP_CKSUM_GOOD flag on outer IP layer, since there is currently no
way to indicate that this csum is good using DPDK offload flags.

Fixes: 81f8804992c9 ("net/qede: enhance Rx CPU utilization")
Fixes: 3d4bb4411683 ("net/qede: add fastpath support for VXLAN tunneling")
CC: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Edwin Brossette <edwin.brossette at 6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Didier Pallard <didier.pallard at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
index 25e28fd9f61b..c764e3d83763 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
@@ -1617,9 +1617,9 @@ qede_recv_pkts_regular(void *p_rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 					    "L4 csum failed, flags = 0x%x",
 					    parse_flag);
 				rxq->rx_hw_errors++;
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_L4_CKSUM_BAD;
+				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_L4_CKSUM_BAD;
 			} else {
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_L4_CKSUM_GOOD;
+				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_L4_CKSUM_GOOD;
 			}
 
 			if (unlikely(qede_check_tunn_csum_l3(parse_flag))) {
@@ -1628,8 +1628,6 @@ qede_recv_pkts_regular(void *p_rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 					parse_flag);
 				rxq->rx_hw_errors++;
 				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM_BAD;
-			} else {
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_GOOD;
 			}
 
 			flags = fp_cqe->tunnel_pars_flags.flags;
@@ -1887,9 +1885,9 @@ qede_recv_pkts(void *p_rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 					    "L4 csum failed, flags = 0x%x",
 					    parse_flag);
 				rxq->rx_hw_errors++;
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_L4_CKSUM_BAD;
+				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_L4_CKSUM_BAD;
 			} else {
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_L4_CKSUM_GOOD;
+				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_L4_CKSUM_GOOD;
 			}
 
 			if (unlikely(qede_check_tunn_csum_l3(parse_flag))) {
@@ -1898,8 +1896,6 @@ qede_recv_pkts(void *p_rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 					parse_flag);
 				  rxq->rx_hw_errors++;
 				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM_BAD;
-			} else {
-				ol_flags |= RTE_MBUF_F_RX_IP_CKSUM_GOOD;
 			}
 
 			if (tpa_start_flg)
-- 
2.35.0.4.g44a5d4affccf



More information about the dev mailing list