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Vijay Pandurangan authored
commit ce8c839b upstream. Packets that arrive from real hardware devices have ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY if the hardware verified the checksums, or CHECKSUM_NONE if the packet is bad or it was unable to verify it. The current version of veth will replace CHECKSUM_NONE with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY, which causes corrupt packets routed from hardware to a veth device to be delivered to the application. This caused applications at Twitter to receive corrupt data when network hardware was corrupting packets. We believe this was added as an optimization to skip computing and verifying checksums for communication between containers. However, locally generated packets have ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, so the code as written does nothing for them. As far as we can tell, after removing this code, these packets are transmitted from one stack to another unmodified (tcpdump shows invalid checksums on both sides, as expected), and they are delivered correctly to applications. We didn’t test every possible network configuration, but we tried a few common ones such as bridging containers, using NAT between the host and a container, and routing from hardware devices to containers. We have effectively deployed this in production at Twitter (by disabling RX checksum offloading on veth devices). This code dates back to the first version of the driver, commit <e314dbdc> ("[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver"), so I suspect this bug occurred mostly because the driver API has evolved significantly since then. Commit <0b796750> ("net/veth: Fix packet checksumming") (in December 2010) fixed this for packets that get created locally and sent to hardware devices, by not changing CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. However, the same issue still occurs for packets coming in from hardware devices. Co-authored-by:
Evan Jones <ej@evanjones.ca> Signed-off-by:
Evan Jones <ej@evanjones.ca> Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Cc: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Vijay Pandurangan <vijayp@vijayp.ca> Acked-by:
Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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