netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next V3 0/6] bpf: New approach for BPF MTU handling

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:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:07:26 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        maze@...gle.com, lmb@...udflare.com, shaun@...era.io,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>, marek@...udflare.com,
        eyal.birger@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next V3 0/6] bpf: New approach for BPF MTU handling

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:40:09 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > FWIW I took a quick swing at testing it with the HW I have and it did
> > exactly what hardware should do. The TX unit entered an error state 
> > and then the driver detected that and reset it a few seconds later.  
> 
> The drivers (i40e, mlx5, ixgbe) I tested with didn't entered an error
> state, when getting packets exceeding the MTU.  I didn't go much above
> 4K, so maybe I didn't trigger those cases.

You probably need to go above 16k to get out of the acceptable jumbo
frame size. I tested ixgbe by converting TSO frames to large TCP frames,
at low probability.