Re: [PATCH] amd64: Fix csum_partial_copy_generic()

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, Oct 18 2023 at 09:36, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 8:18 AM gus Gusenleitner Klaus <gus@keba.com> wrote:
>>
>> The checksum calculation is wrong in case of an source buffer
>> containing zero bytes only. The expected return value is 0, the
>> actual return value is 0xfffffff.
>>
>> This problem occurs when a ICMP echo reply is sent that has set
>> zero identifier, sequence number and data.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Klaus Gusenleitner <gus@keba.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
>> index d9e16a2cf285..c8391b4f3dea 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
>> +++ b/arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START()
>>         movq  %r13, 3*8(%rsp)
>>         movq  %r15, 4*8(%rsp)
>>
>> -       movl  $-1, %eax
>> +       movl  $0, %eax

I don't think this is correct. See below.

>>         xorl  %r9d, %r9d
>>         movl  %edx, %ecx
>>         cmpl  $8, %ecx
>> --
>> 2.30.2
>>
>
> Lets CC Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> (I thought Noah wrote
> some kunit tests, maybe I am wrong)
>
> When was this bug added ?

AFAICT, this was introduced with:

daf52375c19f ("amd64: switch csum_partial_copy_generic() to new calling conventions")

> A Fixes: tag is very much needed, and would be a needed step to CC the
> original author.

Cc'ed Al.

So the change in question is:

-	movl  %ecx, %eax        // Original code stores ECX in EAX
+	movl  $-1, %eax         // EAX is preset with -1

ECX (RCX) was the 4th parameter of the original ASM function call:

extern __visible __wsum csum_partial_copy_generic(const void *src, const void *dst,
                                        int len, __wsum sum,
                                        int *src_err_ptr, int *dst_err_ptr);

I.e. it handed @sum into the function which means a caller provided
seed.

With the above patch the ASM function call was changed to

extern __visible __wsum csum_partial_copy_generic(const void *src, void *dst, int len);

I.e. the seed parameter was removed. AFAICT, all callers back then initialized
the seed parameter to 0 via the various wrapper interfaces which end up there.

Al?

Thanks,

        tglx