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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index c38f890d425e..a43d2086bb7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -189,12 +189,13 @@
*
* NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of
* offloading the SCTP CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack
- * will set ip_summed to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_start and csum_offset
- * accordingly. Note the there is no indication in the skbuff that the
- * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an SCTP checksum, a driver that supports
- * both IP checksum offload and SCTP CRC offload must verify which offload
- * is configured for a packet presumably by inspecting packet headers; in
- * case, skb_crc32c_csum_help is provided to compute CRC on SCTP packets.
+ * will set set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to
+ * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_not_inet to 1, to provide an indication in
+ * the skbuff that the CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to CRC32c.
+ * A driver that supports both IP checksum offload and SCTP CRC32c offload
+ * must verify which offload is configured for a packet by testing the
+ * value of skb->csum_not_inet; skb_crc32c_csum_help is provided to resolve
+ * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on skbs where csum_not_inet is set to 1.
*
* NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of
* offloading the FCOE CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack
@@ -557,6 +558,7 @@ typedef unsigned char *sk_buff_data_t;
* @wifi_acked_valid: wifi_acked was set
* @wifi_acked: whether frame was acked on wifi or not
* @no_fcs: Request NIC to treat last 4 bytes as Ethernet FCS
+ * @csum_not_inet: use CRC32c to resolve CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
* @dst_pending_confirm: need to confirm neighbour
* @napi_id: id of the NAPI struct this skb came from
* @secmark: security marking
@@ -685,7 +687,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
__u8 csum_valid:1;
__u8 csum_complete_sw:1;
__u8 csum_level:2;
- __u8 __csum_bad_unused:1; /* one bit hole */
+ __u8 csum_not_inet:1;
__u8 dst_pending_confirm:1;
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE