Re: [BUG] sky2 broken for Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller 11ab:4362 (rev 19)

[Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>]

2.6.16-rc2 still misses your patch. Was there a special reason not to 
send it
to Linus?

cu,
Knut

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:07:34AM +0100, Knut Petersen wrote:
>  
>
> > Well, there are no problems if SuSEfirewall2 is disabled. But have a look
> > at the loaded modules:
> >
> > ipt_MASQUERADE          3968  1
> > pppoe                  15360  2
> > pppox                   4616  1 pppoe
> >    
>
> OK, although we can't rule out sky2/netfilter from the enquiry, I've
> identified two bugs in ppp/pppoe that may be responsible for what you
> are seeing.  So please try the following patch and let us know if the
> problem still exists (or deteriorates/improves).
>
> [PPP]: Fixed hardware RX checksum handling
>
> When we pull the PPP protocol off the skb, we forgot to update the
> hardware RX checksum.  This may lead to messages such as
>
> 	dsl0: hw csum failure.
>
> Similarly, we need to clear the hardware checksum flag when we use
> the existing packet to store the decompressed result.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> Cheers,
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> @@ -1610,6 +1610,8 @@ ppp_receive_nonmp_frame(struct ppp *ppp,
> 		}
> 		else if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len))
> 			goto err;
> +		else
> +			skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
>
> 		len = slhc_uncompress(ppp->vj, skb->data + 2, skb->len - 2);
> 		if (len <= 0) {
> @@ -1690,6 +1692,7 @@ ppp_receive_nonmp_frame(struct ppp *ppp,
> 			kfree_skb(skb);
> 		} else {
> 			skb_pull(skb, 2);	/* chop off protocol */
> +			skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, skb->data - 2, 2);
> 			skb->dev = ppp->dev;
> 			skb->protocol = htons(npindex_to_ethertype[npi]);
> 			skb->mac.raw = skb->data;
>  

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