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[05/12] ftgmac100: Pad small frames properly

Message ID 20170407033105.29558-6-benh@kernel.crashing.org
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt April 7, 2017, 3:30 a.m. UTC
Rather than just transmitting garbage past the end of the small
packet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Florian Fainelli April 7, 2017, 1:05 p.m. UTC | #1
On 04/06/2017 08:30 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Rather than just transmitting garbage past the end of the small
> packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> index 6c71726..3f2172f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> @@ -636,6 +636,13 @@ static int ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	struct ftgmac100_txdes *txdes;
>  	dma_addr_t map;
>  
> +	/* The HW doesn't pad small frames */
> +	if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN) < 0) {
> +		netdev->stats.tx_dropped++;
> +		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> +	}

You may want to use skb_put_padto() which also takes care of bumping
skb->len accordingly, in case that makes a difference for the ftgmac100
hardware.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt April 7, 2017, 11:15 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 06:05 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> You may want to use skb_put_padto() which also takes care of bumping
> skb->len accordingly, in case that makes a difference for the
> ftgmac100 hardware.

Subsequent patch adds fragments, so it needs to bump headlen. I'll have
a look this week-end, thanks.

Cheers,
Ben.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
index 6c71726..3f2172f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
@@ -636,6 +636,13 @@  static int ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct ftgmac100_txdes *txdes;
 	dma_addr_t map;
 
+	/* The HW doesn't pad small frames */
+	if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN) < 0) {
+		netdev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	}
+
+	/* Reject oversize packets */
 	if (unlikely(skb->len > MAX_PKT_SIZE)) {
 		if (net_ratelimit())
 			netdev_dbg(netdev, "tx packet too big\n");