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[net,2/2] net: bcmgenet: fix skb_len in bcmgenet_xmit_single()

Message ID 1458763289-95167-2-git-send-email-pgynther@google.com
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Petri Gynther March 23, 2016, 8:01 p.m. UTC
skb_len needs to be skb_headlen(skb) in bcmgenet_xmit_single().

Fragmented skbs can have only Ethernet + IP + TCP headers (14+20+20=54 bytes)
in the linear buffer, followed by the rest in fragments. Bumping skb_len to
ETH_ZLEN would be incorrect for this case, as it would introduce garbage
between TCP header and the fragment data.

This also works with regular/non-fragmented small packets < ETH_ZLEN bytes.
Successfully tested this on GENETv3 with 42-byte ARP frames.

For testing, I used:
ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv4 off
ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv6 off
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps

Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Eric Dumazet March 23, 2016, 9:24 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 13:01 -0700, Petri Gynther wrote:
> skb_len needs to be skb_headlen(skb) in bcmgenet_xmit_single().
> 
> Fragmented skbs can have only Ethernet + IP + TCP headers (14+20+20=54 bytes)
> in the linear buffer, followed by the rest in fragments. Bumping skb_len to
> ETH_ZLEN would be incorrect for this case, as it would introduce garbage
> between TCP header and the fragment data.
> 
> This also works with regular/non-fragmented small packets < ETH_ZLEN bytes.
> Successfully tested this on GENETv3 with 42-byte ARP frames.
> 
> For testing, I used:
> ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv4 off
> ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv6 off
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index 9990582..00da239 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int bcmgenet_xmit_single(struct net_device *dev,
>  
>  	tx_cb_ptr->skb = skb;
>  
> -	skb_len = skb_headlen(skb) < ETH_ZLEN ? ETH_ZLEN : skb_headlen(skb);
> +	skb_len = skb_headlen(skb);
>  
>  	mapping = dma_map_single(kdev, skb->data, skb_len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>  	ret = dma_mapping_error(kdev, mapping);

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index 9990582..00da239 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@  static int bcmgenet_xmit_single(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	tx_cb_ptr->skb = skb;
 
-	skb_len = skb_headlen(skb) < ETH_ZLEN ? ETH_ZLEN : skb_headlen(skb);
+	skb_len = skb_headlen(skb);
 
 	mapping = dma_map_single(kdev, skb->data, skb_len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 	ret = dma_mapping_error(kdev, mapping);