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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 87e693a81433..97425c06e1ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -2472,9 +2472,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
/* if we are going to send_subcrq_direct this then we need to
* update the checksum before copying the data into ltb. Essentially
* these packets force disable CSO so that we can guarantee that
- * FW does not need header info and we can send direct.
+ * FW does not need header info and we can send direct. Also, vnic
+ * server must be able to xmit standard packets without header data
*/
- if (!skb_is_gso(skb) && !ind_bufp->index && !netdev_xmit_more()) {
+ if (*hdrs == 0 && !skb_is_gso(skb) &&
+ !ind_bufp->index && !netdev_xmit_more()) {
use_scrq_send_direct = true;
if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
skb_checksum_help(skb))