BUG: fsl FEC ethernet tx checksum offloading doesn't work with RMII interface

[David Jander]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:14:14 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:48:54AM +0100, David Jander wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was unable to figure out who's maintaining
> > drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c, so I hope someone can help out
> > on this list...
> > 
> > We have a board with a RMII phy connected to an i.MX6S. The hardware seems
> > to be ok, since I can receive and transmit ethernet frames without drops or
> > errors. However only simple things like ping and dhcp seemed to work.
> > TCP/IP connections could not be made. When looking at both ends with
> > tcpdump, I realized that all transmitted packages arrived at the other end
> > with the TCP and IP header checksums zeroed-out.
> > 
> > After issuing the following command, TCP/IP started working correctly:
> > 
> > $ ethtool --offload eth0 tx off
> > 
> > This works around the issue. For some reason, when the FEC is in RMII
> > mode, it isn't filling in the checksums.
> > 
> > On another board with an RGMII phy the same kernel works fine without the
> > need to disable offloading. What can possibly relate this functionality to
> > the choice of MAC interface?
> 
> You don't mention which kernel version you're using.  There has been a bug
> here with older kernels...

Sorry, I somehow assumed it was obvious I'd report against latest mainline...
I'm on 4.3-rc7.

Best regards,

-- 
David Jander
Protonic Holland.