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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection (v3)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:45:04 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110.224504.247142858.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100110235017.GA8959@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:50:17 +0100

> Iff the FirstFrag and LastFrag bits can not be set on these packets,
> it should be enough to (1) do the fragmented_frame test sooner and
> return the descriptor to the chipset. Otherwise we can (2) take a
> complete reset on the first suspect packet (whose pattern is more
> specific) to stop the challenger here.
> 
> FWIW, a netratelimited printk of the source mac address may help too.
> 
> I am biased in favor of (2) as:
> - it will not inhibit multi-desc packets
> - the challenger is supposed to be in the LAN and can already hurt
>   quite a lot anyway
> 
> Comments ?

In my opinion if you reset, you give them more power.

Instead of just dropping the next few frames, you allow them
to cause a drop of how ever many RX frames can arrive during
the reset period _PLUS_ the amount of other RX frames which
were in the receive ring at the point of detection.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 19:48 [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection Neil Horman
2009-12-28 19:50 ` Neil Horman
2009-12-28 21:31   ` François romieu
2009-12-28 23:49     ` Neil Horman
2009-12-29  0:24     ` David Dillow
2009-12-29  1:20       ` Neil Horman
2009-12-29  0:51     ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-29  1:16       ` Neil Horman
2009-12-29  1:29         ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-29 15:35     ` Neil Horman
2010-01-05 13:57 ` [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection (v3) Neil Horman
2010-01-05 15:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-05 20:40     ` David Miller
2010-01-05 21:38       ` Neil Horman
2010-01-05 21:45         ` David Miller
2010-01-05 22:04           ` Neil Horman
2010-01-07  1:01       ` Francois Romieu
2010-01-07  1:15         ` David Miller
2010-01-08 23:48           ` Francois Romieu
2010-01-09  0:02             ` David Miller
2010-01-10  1:57               ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-10 23:50                 ` Francois Romieu
2010-01-11  6:45                   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-12  0:16                     ` Francois Romieu
2010-01-12  6:24                       ` David Miller
2010-01-26 22:07                         ` Brandon Philips
2010-01-30 21:50                       ` Neil Horman
2010-02-18 19:37                         ` Brandon Philips

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