netdev - Re: [PATCH] wwan: core: Support slicing in port TX flow of WWAN subsystem

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 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:   Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:27:47 +0200
From:   Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@...aro.org>
To:     haozhe chang <haozhe.chang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     "chandrashekar.devegowda@...el.com" 
        <chandrashekar.devegowda@...el.com>,
        "linuxwwan@...el.com" <linuxwwan@...el.com>,
        "chiranjeevi.rapolu@...ux.intel.com" 
        <chiranjeevi.rapolu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Haijun Liu (刘海军) 
        <haijun.liu@...iatek.com>,
        "m.chetan.kumar@...ux.intel.com" <m.chetan.kumar@...ux.intel.com>,
        "ricardo.martinez@...ux.intel.com" <ricardo.martinez@...ux.intel.com>,
        "ryazanov.s.a@...il.com" <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>,
        "johannes@...solutions.net" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "pabeni@...hat.com" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lambert Wang (王伟) 
        <Lambert.Wang@...iatek.com>,
        Xiayu Zhang (张夏宇) 
        <Xiayu.Zhang@...iatek.com>, srv_heupstream@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wwan: core: Support slicing in port TX flow of WWAN subsystem

On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 13:45, haozhe chang <haozhe.chang@...iatek.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 15:28 +0800, Loic Poulain wrote:
> > Hi Haozhe,
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 03:16, <haozhe.chang@...iatek.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: haozhe chang <haozhe.chang@...iatek.com>
> > >
> > > wwan_port_fops_write inputs the SKB parameter to the TX callback of
> > > the WWAN device driver. However, the WWAN device (e.g., t7xx) may
> > > have an MTU less than the size of SKB, causing the TX buffer to be
> > > sliced and copied once more in the WWAN device driver.
> >
> > The benefit of putting data in an skb is that it is easy to
> > manipulate, so not sure why there is an additional copy in the first
> > place. Isn't possible for the t7xx driver to consume the skb
> > progressively (without intermediate copy), according to its own MTU
> > limitation?
> >
> t7xx driver needs to add metadata to the SKB head for each fragment, so
> the driver has to allocate a new buffer to copy data(skb_put_data) and
> insert metadata.

Normally, once the first part (chunk) of the skb has been consumed
(skb_pull) and written to the device, it will become part of the
skb headroom, which can then be used for appending (skb_push) the
header (metadata) of the second chunks, and so... right?

Just want to avoid a bunch of unnecessary copy/alloc here.

Regards,
Loic