netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mlxsw: spectrum_ptp: Use generic helper function

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:41:37 +0200
From:   Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To:     Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        Samuel Zou <zou_wei@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mlxsw: spectrum_ptp: Use generic helper function

On Tue Jul 28 2020, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> On Mon Jul 27 2020, Petr Machata wrote:
>> So this looks good, and works, but I'm wondering about one thing.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
>>
>> Your code (and evidently most drivers as well) use a different check
>> than mlxsw, namely skb->len + ETH_HLEN < X. When I print_hex_dump()
>> skb_mac_header(skb), skb->len in mlxsw with some test packet, I get e.g.
>> this:
>>
>>     00000000259a4db7: 01 00 5e 00 01 81 00 02 c9 a4 e4 e1 08 00 45 00  ..^...........E.
>>     000000005f29f0eb: 00 48 0d c9 40 00 01 11 c8 59 c0 00 02 01 e0 00  .H..@....Y......
>>     00000000f3663e9e: 01 81 01 3f 01 3f 00 34 9f d3 00 02 00 2c 00 00  ...?.?.4.....,..
>>                             ^sp^^ ^dp^^ ^len^ ^cks^       ^len^
>>     00000000b3914606: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  ................
>>     000000002e7828ea: c9 ff fe a4 e4 e1 00 01 09 fa 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>>     000000000b98156e: 00 00 00 00 00 00                                ......
>>
>> Both UDP and PTP length fields indicate that the payload ends exactly at
>> the end of the dump. So apparently skb->len contains all the payload
>> bytes, including the Ethernet header.
>>
>> Is that the case for other drivers as well? Maybe mlxsw is just missing
>> some SKB magic in the driver.
>
> So I run some tests (on other hardware/drivers) and it seems like that
> the skb->len usually doesn't include the ETH_HLEN. Therefore, it is
> added to the check.
>
> Looking at the driver code:
>
> |static void mlxsw_sp_rx_sample_listener(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 local_port,
> |					void *trap_ctx)
> |{
> |	[...]
> |	/* The sample handler expects skb->data to point to the start of the
> |	 * Ethernet header.
> |	 */
> |	skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
> |	mlxsw_sp_sample_receive(mlxsw_sp, skb, local_port);
> |}

Sorry, that was the wrong function. I meant this one here:

|static void mlxsw_sp_rx_ptp_listener(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 local_port,
|				     void *trap_ctx)
|{
|	[...]
|	/* The PTP handler expects skb->data to point to the start of the
|	 * Ethernet header.
|	 */
|	skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
|	mlxsw_sp_ptp_receive(mlxsw_sp, skb, local_port);
|}

Thanks,
Kurt

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