From: Jason Xing skb_checksum_help() is a common helper that writes the folded 16-bit checksum back via skb->data + csum_start + csum_offset, i.e. it relies on the skb's linear head and fails (with WARN_ONCE and -EINVAL) when skb_headlen() is 0. AF_XDP generic xmit takes two very different paths depending on the netdev. Drivers that advertise IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR (e.g. virtio_net) skip the "copy payload into a linear head" step on purpose as a performance optimisation: xsk_build_skb_zerocopy() only attaches UMEM pages as frags and never calls skb_put(), so skb_headlen() stays 0 for the whole skb. For these skbs there is simply no linear area for skb_checksum_help() to write the csum into - the sw-csum fallback is structurally inapplicable. The patch tries to catch this and reject the combination with error at setup time. Rejecting at bind() converts this silent per-packet failure into a synchronous, actionable -EOPNOTSUPP at setup time. HW csum and launch_time metadata on IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR drivers are unaffected because they do not call skb_checksum_help(). Without the patch, every descriptor carrying 'XDP_TX_METADATA | XDP_TXMD_FLAGS_CHECKSUM' produces: 1) a WARN_ONCE "offset (N) >= skb_headlen() (0)" from skb_checksum_help(), 2) sendmsg() returning -EINVAL without consuming the descriptor (invalid_descs is not incremented), 3) a wedged TX ring: __xsk_generic_xmit() does not advance the consumer on non-EOVERFLOW errors, so the next sendmsg() re-reads the same descriptor and re-hits the same WARN until the socket is closed. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260419045822.843BFC2BCAF@smtp.kernel.org/#t Fixes: 30c3055f9c0d ("xsk: wrap generic metadata handling onto separate function") Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Signed-off-by: Jason Xing --- net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c index 37b7a68b89b3..c2521b6547e3 100644 --- a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c +++ b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ int xp_assign_dev(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool, if (force_zc && force_copy) return -EINVAL; + if (pool->tx_sw_csum && (netdev->priv_flags & IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + if (xsk_get_pool_from_qid(netdev, queue_id)) return -EBUSY; -- 2.41.3