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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rob@taglang.io
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: sun: niu set correct packet size in skb
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 16:04:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180503.160455.1091782405023067534.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1525359964.11695.1@server175.web-hosting.com>

From: Rob Taglang <rob@taglang.io>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 11:06:04 -0400

> Currently, skb->len and skb->data_len are set to the page size, not
> the packet size. This causes the frame check sequence to not be
> located at the "end" of the packet resulting in ethernet frame check
> errors. The driver does work currently, but stricter kernel facing
> networking solutions like OpenVSwitch will drop these packets as
> invalid.
> 
> These changes set the packet size correctly so that these errors no
> longer occur. The length does not include the frame check sequence, so
> that subtraction was removed.
> 
> Tested on Oracle/SUN Multithreaded 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network
> Controller [108e:abcd].
> 
> This is a resubmission after subscribing to the list; I think it got
> caught in a spam filter since I can't see my message in the archive,
> but if not and this is just pissing off a maintainer I'm really sorry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Taglang <rob@taglang.io>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c
> index f081de4..88c1247 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c
> @@ -3443,7 +3443,7 @@ static int niu_process_rx_pkt(struct napi_struct
> *napi, struct niu *np,
> 
>                len = (val & RCR_ENTRY_L2_LEN) >>
>                        RCR_ENTRY_L2_LEN_SHIFT;
> - len -= ETH_FCS_LEN;
> + append_size = len + ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;

This patch is severely corrupted by your email client.

Please fix this, send the patch to yourself as a test, and only repost
the patch here on the list once you can successfully apply the patch
contained in the test email.

Thanks.

       reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1525359964.11695.1@server175.web-hosting.com>
2018-05-03 20:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-05-03 20:38   ` [PATCH] net: ethernet: sun: niu set correct packet size in skb rob
2018-05-03 20:55     ` David Miller
2018-05-03 21:13 Rob Taglang
2018-05-04 16:56 ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <1525453674.10031.0@server175.web-hosting.com>
2018-05-04 17:09     ` David Miller
2018-05-04 17:22       ` David Miller

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