netdev - Re: [PATCH 12/37] dccp: Feature negotiation for minimum-checksum-coverage

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:25:04 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Cc:	dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/37] dccp: Feature negotiation for
	minimum-checksum-coverage

Em Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:44:47PM +0200, Gerrit Renker escreveu:
> This provides feature negotiation for server minimum checksum coverage
> which so far has been missing.
> 
> Since sender/receiver coverage values range only from 0...15, their
> type has also been reduced in size from u16 to u4.
> 
> Feature-negotiation options are now generated for both sender and receiver
> coverage, i.e. when the peer has `forgotten' to enable partial coverage
> then feature negotiation will automatically enable (negotiate) the partial
> coverage value for this connection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@...di.co.nz>
> ---
>  include/linux/dccp.h |    4 +-
>  net/dccp/proto.c     |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/dccp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dccp.h
> @@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ struct dccp_sock {
>  	__u32				dccps_timestamp_time;
>  	__u16				dccps_l_ack_ratio;
>  	__u16				dccps_r_ack_ratio;
> -	__u16				dccps_pcslen;
> -	__u16				dccps_pcrlen;
> +	__u8				dccps_pcslen:4;
> +	__u8				dccps_pcrlen:4;
>  	__u64				dccps_ndp_count:48;
>  	unsigned long			dccps_rate_last;
>  	struct dccp_minisock		dccps_minisock;
> --- a/net/dccp/proto.c
> +++ b/net/dccp/proto.c
> @@ -470,6 +470,41 @@ static int dccp_setsockopt_service(struct sock *sk, const __be32 service,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int dccp_setsockopt_cscov(struct sock *sk, int cscov, bool rx)
> +{
> +	u8 *list, len;
> +	int i, rc;
> +
> +	if (cscov < 0 || cscov > 15)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (rx)
> +		dccp_sk(sk)->dccps_pcrlen = cscov;
> +	else
> +		dccp_sk(sk)->dccps_pcslen = cscov;

Wouldn't be better to change socket internal state only after the
kmalloc? Perhaps even only if dccp_feat_register_sp was successful?

> +	/*
> +	 * Populate a list of permissible values, in the range cscov...15. This
> +	 * is necessary since feature negotiation of single values only works if
> +	 * both sides incidentally choose the same value. Since the list starts
> +	 * lowest-value first, negotiation will pick the smallest shared value.
> +	 */
> +	if (cscov == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +	len = 16 - cscov;
> +
> +	list = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (list == NULL)
> +		return -ENOBUFS;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> +		list[i] = cscov++;
> +
> +	rc = dccp_feat_register_sp(sk, DCCPF_MIN_CSUM_COVER, rx, list, len);
> +
> +	kfree(list);
> +	return rc;
> +}
> +
>  static int do_dccp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
>  		char __user *optval, int optlen)
>  {
> @@ -502,20 +537,11 @@ static int do_dccp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
>  		else
>  			dp->dccps_server_timewait = (val != 0);
>  		break;
> -	case DCCP_SOCKOPT_SEND_CSCOV:	/* sender side, RFC 4340, sec. 9.2 */
> -		if (val < 0 || val > 15)
> -			err = -EINVAL;
> -		else
> -			dp->dccps_pcslen = val;
> +	case DCCP_SOCKOPT_SEND_CSCOV:
> +		err = dccp_setsockopt_cscov(sk, val, false);
>  		break;
> -	case DCCP_SOCKOPT_RECV_CSCOV:	/* receiver side, RFC 4340 sec. 9.2.1 */
> -		if (val < 0 || val > 15)
> -			err = -EINVAL;
> -		else {
> -			dp->dccps_pcrlen = val;
> -			/* FIXME: add feature negotiation,
> -			 * ChangeL(MinimumChecksumCoverage, val) */
> -		}
> +	case DCCP_SOCKOPT_RECV_CSCOV:
> +		err = dccp_setsockopt_cscov(sk, val, true);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
> -- 
> 1.6.0.rc2
> 
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