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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index fc4993526ead..8b54fdf0289a 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3768,8 +3768,14 @@ static netdev_features_t gso_features_check(const struct sk_buff *skb, if (!(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_PARTIAL)) features &= ~dev->gso_partial_features; - /* Make sure to clear the IPv4 ID mangling feature if the - * IPv4 header has the potential to be fragmented. + /* Make sure to clear the IPv4 ID mangling feature if the IPv4 header + * has the potential to be fragmented so that TSO does not generate + * segments with the same ID. For encapsulated packets, the ID mangling + * feature is guaranteed not to use the same ID for the outer IPv4 + * headers of the generated segments if the headers have the potential + * to be fragmented, so there is no need to clear the IPv4 ID mangling + * feature (see the section about NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID in + * segmentation-offloads.rst). */ if (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCPV4) { struct iphdr *iph = skb->encapsulation ? |