netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: aquantia: set net

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:01:49 -0500
From:   David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
To:     Pavel Belous <pavel.belous@...antia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: aquantia: set net_device mtu when mtu is
 changed

On 03/09/2017 02:02 PM, Pavel Belous wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09.03.2017 00:33, David Arcari wrote:
>> When the aquantia device mtu is changed the net_device structure is not
>> updated.  As a result the ip command does not properly reflect the mtu change.
>>
>> Commit 5513e16421cb incorrectly assumed that __dev_set_mtu() was making the
>> assignment ndev->mtu = new_mtu;  This is not true in the case where the driver
>> has a ndo_change_mtu routine.
>>
>> Fixes: 5513e16421cb ("net: ethernet: aquantia: Fixes for aq_ndev_change_mtu")
>>
>> Cc: Pavel Belous <Pavel.Belous@...antia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_main.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_main.c
>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_main.c
>> index dad6362..d05fbfd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_main.c
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static int aq_ndev_change_mtu(struct net_device *ndev, int
>> new_mtu)
>>
>>      if (err < 0)
>>          goto err_exit;
>> +    ndev->mtu = new_mtu;
>>
>>      if (netif_running(ndev)) {
>>          aq_ndev_close(ndev);
>>
> 
> Thank you, David.
> 
> I think we should also remove closing/opening net-device after mtu changed.

Hi Pavel,

I'll go ahead and submit v2.

Thanks,

-Dave

> 
> Regards,
> Pavel