From: Chia-Yu Chang <[email protected]>

No functional changes.

Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index e6bfe5d0c525..30a8dc4233ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -671,7 +671,13 @@ enum {
        /* This indicates the skb is from an untrusted source. */
        SKB_GSO_DODGY = 1 << 1,
 
-       /* This indicates the tcp segment has CWR set. */
+       /* For Tx, this indicates the first TCP segment has CWR set, and any
+        * subsequent segment in the same skb has CWR cleared. However, because
+        * the connection to which the segment belongs is not tracked to use
+        * RFC3168 or AccECN (RFC9768), and using RFC3168 ECN offload may clear
+        * ACE signal (CWR is one of it). Therefore, this cannot be used on Rx.
+        * Instead, SKB_GSO_TCP_ACCECN shall be used to avoid CWR corruption.
+        */
        SKB_GSO_TCP_ECN = 1 << 2,
 
        __SKB_GSO_TCP_FIXEDID = 1 << 3,
@@ -706,6 +712,14 @@ enum {
 
        SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST = 1 << 18,
 
+       /* For TX, this indicates the TCP segment uses the CWR flag as part of
+        * ACE signal, and the CWR flag is not modified in the skb. For RX, any
+        * CWR flagged segment must use SKB_GSO_TCP_ACCECN to ensure CWR flag
+        * is not cleared by any RFC3168 ECN offload, and thus keeping ACE
+        * signal of AccECN segments. This is particularly used for Rx of
+        * virtio_net driver in order to tell latter GSO Tx in a forwarding
+        * scenario that it is NOT ok to clean CWR flag from the 2nd segment.
+        */
        SKB_GSO_TCP_ACCECN = 1 << 19,
 
        /* These indirectly map onto the same netdev feature.
-- 
2.34.1


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