net/ipv6: Drop HBH for BIG TCP on TX side

BIG TCP IPv6 inserts a hop-by-hop extension header to indicate the real
IPv6 payload length when it doesn't fit into the 16-bit field in the
IPv6 header itself. While it helps tools parse the packet, it also
requires every driver that supports TSO and BIG TCP to remove this
8-byte extension header. It might not sound that bad until we try to
apply it to tunneled traffic. Currently, the drivers don't attempt to
strip HBH if skb->encapsulation = 1. Moreover, trying to do so would
require dissecting different tunnel protocols and making corresponding
adjustments on case-by-case basis, which would slow down the fastpath
(potentially also requiring adjusting checksums in outer headers).

At the same time, BIG TCP IPv4 doesn't insert any extra headers and just
calculates the payload length from skb->len, significantly simplifying
implementing BIG TCP for tunnels.

Stop inserting HBH when building BIG TCP GSO SKBs.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-3-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ipv6.h b/include/linux/ipv6.h
index 57ab6c97ee7e..bdbd63f9a85e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ struct inet6_skb_parm {
 #define IP6SKB_L3SLAVE         64
 #define IP6SKB_JUMBOGRAM      128
 #define IP6SKB_SEG6	      256
-#define IP6SKB_FAKEJUMBO      512
 #define IP6SKB_MULTIPATH      1024
 #define IP6SKB_MCROUTE        2048
 };