netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 8/8] selftests: forwarding: ethtool_mm: support devices with higher rx-min-frag-size

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: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 14:36:54 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, s-vadapalli@...com, r-gunasekaran@...com,
	vigneshr@...com, srk@...com, horms@...nel.org, p-varis@...com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 8/8] selftests: forwarding: ethtool_mm:
 support devices with higher rx-min-frag-size

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:58:02PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> Some devices have errata due to which they cannot report ETH_ZLEN (60)
> in the rx-min-frag-size. This was foreseen of course, and lldpad has
> logic that when we request it to advertise addFragSize 0, it will round
> it up to the lowest value that is _actually_ supported by the hardware.
> 
> The problem is that the selftest expects lldpad to report back to us the
> same value as we requested.
> 
> Make the selftest smarter by figuring out on its own what is a
> reasonable value to expect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> Tested-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>
> ---

When you do resend, please make sure that this change is present before
your driver support, such that bisections show that the selftest passes
since the very introduction of this feature.