TCP connectivity fails when the guest has a different endianness.
The packets are silently dropped on the host by the tap backend
when they are read from user space because the endianness of the
virtio-net header is in the wrong order. These lines may appear
in the guest console:
[ 454.709327] skbuff: bad partial csum: csum=8704/4096 len=74
[ 455.702554] skbuff: bad partial csum: csum=8704/4096 len=74
The issue that got first spotted with a ppc64le PowerKVM guest,
but it also exists for the less common case of a x86_64 guest run
by a big-endian ppc64 TCG hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
[ Ported from PowerKVM,
Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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