Satish Patel reports a skb_warn_bad_offload() splat caused
by -j CHECKSUM rules:
-A POSTROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -j CHECKSUM
The CHECKSUM target has never worked with GSO skbs, and the above rule
makes no sense as kernel will handle checksum updates on transmit.
Unfortunately, there are 3rd party tools that install such rules, so we
cannot reject this from the config plane without potential breakage.
Amend Kconfig text to clarify that the CHECKSUM target is only useful
in virtualized environments, where old dhcp clients that use AF_PACKET
used to discard UDP packets with a 'bad' header checksum and add a
one-time warning in case such rule isn't restricted to UDP.
v2: check IP6T_F_PROTO flag before cmp (Michal Kubecek)
Reported-by: Satish Patel <satish.txt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@suse.com>
Reported-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
remove several pr_info messages that cannot be triggered with iptables,
the check is only to ensure input is sane.
iptables(8) already prints error messages in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle
table.
You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in
a packet that lacks a checksum. This is particularly useful,
if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients,
that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to
disable checksum offload in your device.
The problem happens in the field with virtualized applications.
For reference, see Red Hat bz 605555, as well as
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg37660.html
Typical expected use (helps old dhclient binary running in a VM):
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t mangle -p udp --dport bootpc \
-j CHECKSUM --checksum-fill
Includes fixes by Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Florian Westphal