netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/tls: support maximum record size limit

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 22:05:10 +0000
From: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/tls: support maximum record size limit

On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 12:40 +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
[snip]
> Hi Wilfred,
> 
> I'll leave review of this approach to others.
> But in the meantime I wanted to pass on a minor problem I noticed in
> the code
> 
> > diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> > index bac65d0d4e3e..9f9359f591d3 100644
> > --- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> > +++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> > @@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ static int tls_sw_sendmsg_locked(struct sock
> > *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
> >  	unsigned char record_type = TLS_RECORD_TYPE_DATA;
> >  	bool is_kvec = iov_iter_is_kvec(&msg->msg_iter);
> >  	bool eor = !(msg->msg_flags & MSG_MORE);
> > +	u16 record_size_limit;
> >  	size_t try_to_copy;
> >  	ssize_t copied = 0;
> >  	struct sk_msg *msg_pl, *msg_en;
> > @@ -1058,6 +1059,9 @@ static int tls_sw_sendmsg_locked(struct sock
> > *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	record_size_limit = tls_ctx->record_size_limit ?
> > +			    tls_ctx->record_size_limit :
> > TLS_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE;
> > +
> >  	while (msg_data_left(msg)) {
> >  		if (sk->sk_err) {
> >  			ret = -sk->sk_err;
> 
> record_size_limit is set but otherwise unused.
> Did you forget to add something here?
> 
> If not, please remove record_size_limit from this function.
Hey Simon,

Yes, this is an error. I will fixup. Thank you.

Regards,
Wilfred