netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/12] net: dsa: implement a central TX reallocation procedure

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:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:41:05 +0100
From:   Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/12] net: dsa: implement a central TX reallocation procedure

On Fri Oct 30 2020, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> At the moment, taggers are left with the task of ensuring that the skb
> headers are writable (which they aren't, if the frames were cloned for
> TX timestamping, for flooding by the bridge, etc), and that there is
> enough space in the skb data area for the DSA tag to be pushed.
>
> Moreover, the life of tail taggers is even harder, because they need to
> ensure that short frames have enough padding, a problem that normal
> taggers don't have.
>
> The principle of the DSA framework is that everything except for the
> most intimate hardware specifics (like in this case, the actual packing
> of the DSA tag bits) should be done inside the core, to avoid having
> code paths that are very rarely tested.
>
> So provide a TX reallocation procedure that should cover the known needs
> of DSA today.
>
> Note that this patch also gives the network stack a good hint about the
> headroom/tailroom it's going to need. Up till now it wasn't doing that.
> So the reallocation procedure should really be there only for the
> exceptional cases, and for cloned packets which need to be unshared.
> The tx_reallocs counter should prove that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> Tested-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de> # For tail taggers only

Tested-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>

I'll wait with the hellcreek series until this is merged.

Thanks,
Kurt

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (833 bytes)