netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e100: Fix inconsistency in bad frames handling

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Message-ID: <4DF79AB1.2080109@candelatech.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:30:25 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@...il.com>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e100: Fix inconsistency in bad frames handling

On 06/06/2011 01:29 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 06 juin 2011 à 21:15 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
>> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 10:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> On 06/06/2011 10:49 AM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <added netdev>, removed other useless lists.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Andrea Merello wrote:
>>>>> In e100 driver it seems that the intention was to accept bad frames in
>>>>> promiscuous mode and loopback mode.
>>>>> I think this is evident because of the following code in the driver:
>>>>>
>>>>> if (nic->flags&   promiscuous || nic->loopback) {
>>>>> 		config->rx_save_bad_frames = 0x1;	/* 1=save, 0=discard */
>>>>> 		config->rx_discard_short_frames = 0x0;	/* 1=discard, 0=save */
>>>>> 		config->promiscuous_mode = 0x1;		/* 1=on, 0=off */
>>>>> 	}
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, thanks for your work on e100.
>>>>
>>>>> However this intention is not really realized because bad frames are
>>>>> discarded later by SW check.
>>>>> This patch finally honors the above intention, making the RX code to
>>>>> let bad frames to pass when the NIC is in promiscuous or loopback
>>>>> mode.
>>>>
>>>> I think this may be a mistake by the authors of the software developers
>>>> manual.  The manual suggests that save bad frames and save short frames
>>>> should be enabled in promisc mode, but all of our other drivers *do not*
>>>> save bad frames when in promiscuous mode (by design).  This is intentional
>>>> because a bad frame is just that, bad, and with no hope of knowing if the
>>>> data in it is okay/malicious/other.  I understand your reasoning above,
>>>> but realistically the rx_save_bad_frames should NOT be set.  I'd ack a
>>>> patch to comment that line out.
>>>>
>>>>> This helped me a lot to debug an FPGA ethernet core.
>>>>> Maybe it can be also useful to someone else..
>>>>
>>>> I think this patch is just that, debug only. As a developer I understand
>>>> why this is useful, but there is no reason any normal user would be able
>>>> to benefit from this, so for now, sorry:
>>>>
>>>> NACK.
>>>
>>> I think anyone sniffing a funky network would have benefit in
>>> receiving all frames.  So, while it shouldn't be enabled by default,
>>> it would be nice to have an ethtool command to turn on receiving
>>> bad-crc frames, as well as receiving the 4-byte CRC on the end of
>>> the packets.
>>>
>>> It just so happens I have such a patch, in case others agree :)
>>
>> How would a received skb be flagged as having a CRC error?
>>
>
> maybe some skb->pkt_type = PACKET_INVALID; or something...

Jesse:  If I can get the ethtool related patches accepted, would
you accept patches to e100 (and other Intel drivers) for
this feature?

Thanks,
Ben

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