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smsc95xx: Invalid max MTU

Message ID 1102700056.29198.1536169142144@email.1und1.de
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series smsc95xx: Invalid max MTU | expand

Commit Message

Stefan Wahren Sept. 5, 2018, 5:39 p.m. UTC
Hi,

recently there was a user who reports that his Raspberry Pi 3B didn't work as expected [1].

The problem is that the smsc95xx driver accepts to high MTU values ( > 9000) from userspace like dhcp-client, but according to the LAN9500 databook the chip seems only capable to handle MTU sizes <= 1500.

It looks like that smsc95xx slipped through the cracks during the creation of commit f77f0aee4da4 ("net: use core MTU range checking in USB NIC drivers"). Unfortunately i don't have all the chips listed in this driver.

So my questions would be the following patch correct:


[1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2660

Comments

Raghuram Chary J Sept. 6, 2018, 6:26 a.m. UTC | #1
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c index
> 06b4d29..420a0e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
> @@ -1318,6 +1318,7 @@ static int smsc95xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct
> usb_interface *intf)
>  	dev->net->ethtool_ops = &smsc95xx_ethtool_ops;
>  	dev->net->flags |= IFF_MULTICAST;
>  	dev->net->hard_header_len += SMSC95XX_TX_OVERHEAD_CSUM;
> +	dev->net->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
>  	dev->hard_mtu = dev->net->mtu + dev->net->hard_header_len;
> 
>  	pdata->dev = dev;

Thanks for the patch.
Because device max_mtu is checked before changing the MTU value, I think your patch looks good to me.
Maybe you also want to add min_mtu too?

Thanks,
-Raghu
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
index 06b4d29..420a0e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
@@ -1318,6 +1318,7 @@  static int smsc95xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 	dev->net->ethtool_ops = &smsc95xx_ethtool_ops;
 	dev->net->flags |= IFF_MULTICAST;
 	dev->net->hard_header_len += SMSC95XX_TX_OVERHEAD_CSUM;
+	dev->net->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
 	dev->hard_mtu = dev->net->mtu + dev->net->hard_header_len;
 
 	pdata->dev = dev;