Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: fix bad UDP checksums

[Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Acked by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Santiago Leon wrote:
> This patch fixes a ibmveth bug where bad UDP checksums are being transmitted 
> when checksum offloading is enabled.
> The hypervisor does checksum offloading only on TCP packets, so ibmveth calls 
> skb_checksum_help() for any other protocol.  The bug happens because 
> the packet is being modified after the DMA map, so we would need a memory 
> barrier before making the hypervisor call.  Reordering the code so that the 
> DMA map happens after skb_checksum_help() has the additional advantage of 
> fixing a DMA map leak if skb_checksum_help() where to fail.
> 
> Please consider applying.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  ibmveth.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2008-08-19 07:31:29.000000000 -0400
> +++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2008-08-19 07:46:24.000000000 -0400
> @@ -904,8 +904,6 @@ static int ibmveth_start_xmit(struct sk_
>  	unsigned long data_dma_addr;
> 
>  	desc.fields.flags_len = IBMVETH_BUF_VALID | skb->len;
> -	data_dma_addr = dma_map_single(&adapter->vdev->dev, skb->data,
> -				       skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> 
>  	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL &&
>  	    ip_hdr(skb)->protocol != IPPROTO_TCP && skb_checksum_help(skb)) {
> @@ -924,6 +922,8 @@ static int ibmveth_start_xmit(struct sk_
>  		buf[1] = 0;
>  	}
> 
> +	data_dma_addr = dma_map_single(&adapter->vdev->dev, skb->data,
> +				       skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>  	if (dma_mapping_error(&adapter->vdev->dev, data_dma_addr)) {
>  		if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_CMO))
>  			ibmveth_error_printk("tx: unable to map xmit buffer\n");
> @@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ static int ibmveth_start_xmit(struct sk_
>  		desc.fields.address = adapter->bounce_buffer_dma;
>  		tx_map_failed++;
>  		used_bounce = 1;
> +		wmb();
>  	} else
>  		desc.fields.address = data_dma_addr;
> 
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Brian King
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