[TCP]: rare bad TCP checksum with 2.6.19 The patch "Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE" changed to unconditional copying of ip_summed field from collapsed skb. This patch reverts this change. The majority of substantial work including heavy testing and diagnosing by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Possible reasons pointed by: Herbert Xu and Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 32c1a97..23e32c8 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,8 @@ memcpy(skb_put(skb, next_skb_size), next_skb->data, next_skb_size); - skb->ip_summed = next_skb->ip_summed; + if (next_skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL; if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) skb->csum = csum_block_add(skb->csum, next_skb->csum, skb_size);