Bug 443452

Summary: TCP traffic is dropped if TX checksum flag is enabled in guest
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: xennerAssignee: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Xenstore data
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netbackd log file
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tcpdump log when tx is enabled (and traffic fails)
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tcpdump log when tx is disabled (and traffic succeeds) none

Description Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-21 16:47:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
Booting up a F8 guest, the eth0 device has following settings by default:


# ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: off
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: off
tcp segmentation offload: off
udp fragmentation offload: off
generic segmentation offload: off


If I try to 'wget http://google.com' the connections all fail - some, but not
all, packets are not replied to.

If I turn off checksum offload with

  ethtool -K eth0 tx off

then, everything works fine. This blocks install of new guests becasue they have
TX checksum enabled by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Guest kernel: 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen
xenner-0.29-1.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup guest config to use libvirt 'default' network, ie connect the TAP
device to 'virbr0', which is connected to outside world with NAT.
1. Boot the guest 
2. Run wget http://google.com
3.
  
Actual results:
No reply

Expected results:
Fetches index.html

Additional info:
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-21 16:48:34 UTC 
Created attachment 303167 [details]
Xenstore data
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-21 16:48:57 UTC 
Created attachment 303168 [details]
netbackd log file
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-21 16:49:28 UTC 
Created attachment 303169 [details]
tcpdump log when tx is enabled (and traffic fails)
Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-21 16:49:45 UTC 
Created attachment 303170 [details]
tcpdump log when tx is disabled (and traffic succeeds)
Comment 5 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-22 07:57:56 UTC 
Ok, can reproduce it, investigating ...
Comment 6 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-22 13:12:26 UTC 
Fixed: http://hg.et.redhat.com/kvm/xenner?cs=34f0d0f825f1
Comment 7 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-22 13:25:52 UTC 
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=574802
(scratch build, seems cvs isn't fully up'n'running yet).
Comment 8 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-23 11:20:22 UTC 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xenner/0.29/2.fc9/
please retest
Comment 9 Daniel Berrangé 2008-05-09 21:29:49 UTC 
Confirm this works now - although on i386 Xenner fails with a exception about
missing instruction emulation. Xenner 0.33 works though, so be good to get that
pushed to F9 updates
Comment 10 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-05-13 09:09:59 UTC 
Thanks for testing.

F10 has 0.33 already.  F9 update is planned but I think I'll address the libvirt
integration issues first ...