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Message-ID: <ad0d23a8d3c246d5ff10c52b52a8175c@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:30:12 -0700
From: dwilder <dwilder@...ibm.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com, cris.forno@....com,
pradeeps@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, wilder@...ibm.com
Subject: RE: [ PATCH v1 2/2] ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
On 2020-10-11 11:31, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:51:30 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>> > > @@ -1385,7 +1386,17 @@ static int ibmveth_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>> > > skb_put(skb, length);
>> > > skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, netdev);
>> > >
>> > > - if (length > netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN) {
>> > > + /* PHYP without PLSO support places a -1 in the ip
>> > > + * checksum for large send frames.
>> > > + */
>> > > + if (be16_to_cpu(skb->protocol) == ETH_P_IP) {
>
> You can byteswap the constant, so its done at compilation time.
Thanks for the comments.
For V2 of patch I will change above to BE16_TO_CPU()
>
>> > > + struct iphdr *iph = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;
>> > > +
>> > > + iph_check = iph->check;
>> >
>> > Check against truncated/bad packets.
>>
>> .. unless I missed context. Other code in this driver seems to peek in
>> the network and transport layer headers without additional geometry
>> and integrity checks, too.
>
> Good catch, even if we trust the hypervisor to only forward valid
> frames this needs to be at least mentioned in the commit message.
>
> Also please add Fixes tags to both patches.
For V2: ( posting soon )
-Will add Fix tags
-update commit message re: validity of frames from Hypervisor.
-switch be16_to_cpu() to BE16_TO_CPU().
Thanks
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