udp: Allow GSO transmit from devices with no checksum offload

Today sending a UDP GSO packet from a TUN device results in an EIO error:

  import fcntl, os, struct
  from socket import *

  TUNSETIFF = 0x400454CA
  IFF_TUN = 0x0001
  IFF_NO_PI = 0x1000
  UDP_SEGMENT = 103

  tun_fd = os.open("/dev/net/tun", os.O_RDWR)
  ifr = struct.pack("16sH", b"tun0", IFF_TUN | IFF_NO_PI)
  fcntl.ioctl(tun_fd, TUNSETIFF, ifr)

  os.system("ip addr add 192.0.2.1/24 dev tun0")
  os.system("ip link set dev tun0 up")

  s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
  s.setsockopt(SOL_UDP, UDP_SEGMENT, 1200)
  s.sendto(b"x" * 3000, ("192.0.2.2", 9)) # EIO

This is due to a check in the udp stack if the egress device offers
checksum offload. While TUN/TAP devices, by default, don't advertise this
capability because it requires support from the TUN/TAP reader.

However, the GSO stack has a software fallback for checksum calculation,
which we can use. This way we don't force UDP_SEGMENT users to handle the
EIO error and implement a segmentation fallback.

Lift the restriction so that UDP_SEGMENT can be used with any egress
device. We also need to adjust the UDP GSO code to match the GSO stack
expectation about ip_summed field, as set in commit 8d63bee ("net:
avoid skb_warn_bad_offload false positives on UFO"). Otherwise we will hit
the bad offload check.

Users should, however, expect a potential performance impact when
batch-sending packets with UDP_SEGMENT without checksum offload on the
egress device. In such case the packet payload is read twice: first during
the sendmsg syscall when copying data from user memory, and then in the GSO
stack for checksum computation. This double memory read can be less
efficient than a regular sendmsg where the checksum is calculated during
the initial data copy from user memory.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

Author: jsitnicki

net/ipv4/udp.c

@@ -938,8 +938,7 @@ static int udp_send_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi4 *fl4,
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
-		if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL || is_udplite ||
-		    dst_xfrm(skb_dst(skb))) {
+		if (is_udplite || dst_xfrm(skb_dst(skb))) {
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			return -EIO;
 		}

net/ipv4/udp_offload.c

@@ -357,6 +357,14 @@ struct sk_buff *__udp_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *gso_skb,
 	else
 		uh->check = gso_make_checksum(seg, ~check) ? : CSUM_MANGLED_0;
 
+	/* On the TX path, CHECKSUM_NONE and CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY have the same
+	 * meaning. However, check for bad offloads in the GSO stack expects the
+	 * latter, if the checksum was calculated in software. To vouch for the
+	 * segment skbs we actually need to set it on the gso_skb.
+	 */
+	if (gso_skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE)
+		gso_skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
+
 	/* update refcount for the packet */
 	if (copy_dtor) {
 		int delta = sum_truesize - gso_skb->truesize;

net/ipv6/udp.c

@@ -1257,8 +1257,7 @@ static int udp_v6_send_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi6 *fl6,
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
-		if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL || is_udplite ||
-		    dst_xfrm(skb_dst(skb))) {
+		if (is_udplite || dst_xfrm(skb_dst(skb))) {
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			return -EIO;
 		}