Dell TB18 dock ethernet corrupts data with hw checksum silently failing

[M. Haag]

It looks like TCP rx and tx checksum offloading is broken on the TB18 dock's ethernet adapter. For example downloading a large file such as the Ubuntu ISO, and then running an md5sum on it yields the incorrect md5sum. This is because
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
and both set to on by default.

Running sudo ethtool -K <TB18 eth device> tx off rx off, allows the download to complete correctly. This is very bad since this can cause very bad untrustworthy behavior.

This was conducted using an Dell Precision 7530 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 with kernel 4.15.0-34-generic.

Looks like the fix done with https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-sputnik/+bug/1729674 needs to be extended for the TB18 which has a different serial (see "lsusb -v" output):

Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Device Descriptor:
  bLength 18
  bDescriptorType 1
  bcdUSB 3.00
  bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass 0
  bDeviceProtocol 0
  bMaxPacketSize0 9
  idVendor 0x0bda Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
  idProduct 0x8153
  bcdDevice 30.11
  iManufacturer 1 Realtek
  iProduct 2 USB 10/100/1000 LAN
  iSerial 6 000002000000
...

This bug also affects https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1785778

[Kai-Heng Feng (kaihengfeng)]

I think the serial is the same as LP: #1785780.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[M. Haag (mahaag)]

Looks like this bug was fixed with kernel version 4.15.0-36.39.