[PATCH 3.18 074/185] batman-adv: fix packet checksum in receive path

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 12:27:56 EST


3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit abd6360591d3f8259f41c34e31ac4826dfe621b8 ]

eth_type_trans() internally calls skb_pull(), which does not adjust the
skb checksum; skb_postpull_rcsum() is necessary to avoid log spam of the
form "bat0: hw csum failure" when packets with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE are
received.

Note that in usual setups, packets don't reach batman-adv with
CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (I assume NICs bail out of checksumming when they see
batadv's ethtype?), which is why the log messages do not occur on every
system using batman-adv. I could reproduce this issue by stacking
batman-adv on top of a VXLAN interface.

Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Tested-by: Maximilian Wilhelm <max@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -401,13 +401,7 @@ void batadv_interface_rx(struct net_devi

/* skb->dev & skb->pkt_type are set here */
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, soft_iface);
-
- /* should not be necessary anymore as we use skb_pull_rcsum()
- * TODO: please verify this and remove this TODO
- * -- Dec 21st 2009, Simon Wunderlich
- */
-
- /* skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY; */
+ skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);

batadv_inc_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_RX);
batadv_add_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_RX_BYTES,