Re: [PATCH net] ibmveth: Convert multicast list size for little-endian systems

[Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>]

On 8/12/19 12:49 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 12:43 -0500, Thomas Falcon wrote:
>> The ibm,mac-address-filters property defines the maximum number of
>> addresses the hypervisor's multicast filter list can support. It is
>> encoded as a big-endian integer in the OF device tree, but the virtual
>> ethernet driver does not convert it for use by little-endian systems.
>> As a result, the driver is not behaving as it should on affected systems
>> when a large number of multicast addresses are assigned to the device.
>>
>> Reported-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
>> index d654c23..b50a6cf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
>> @@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ static int ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
>>   
>>   	adapter->vdev = dev;
>>   	adapter->netdev = netdev;
>> -	adapter->mcastFilterSize = *mcastFilterSize_p;
>> +	adapter->mcastFilterSize = be32_to_cpu(*mcastFilterSize_p);
>>   	adapter->pool_config = 0;
>>   
>>   	netif_napi_add(netdev, &adapter->napi, ibmveth_poll, 16);
> Perhaps to keep sparse happy too: (untested)


Thanks! I will test this and submit a v2 soon.


> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> index d654c234aaf7..90539d7ce565 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ static int ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
>   	struct net_device *netdev;
>   	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter;
>   	unsigned char *mac_addr_p;
> -	unsigned int *mcastFilterSize_p;
> +	__be32 *mcastFilterSize_p;
>   	long ret;
>   	unsigned long ret_attr;
>   
> @@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ static int ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>   
> -	mcastFilterSize_p = (unsigned int *)vio_get_attribute(dev,
> +	mcastFilterSize_p = (__be32 *)vio_get_attribute(dev,
>   						VETH_MCAST_FILTER_SIZE, NULL);
>   	if (!mcastFilterSize_p) {
>   		dev_err(&dev->dev, "Can't find VETH_MCAST_FILTER_SIZE "
> @@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ static int ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
>   
>   	adapter->vdev = dev;
>   	adapter->netdev = netdev;
> -	adapter->mcastFilterSize = *mcastFilterSize_p;
> +	adapter->mcastFilterSize = be32_to_cpu(*mcastFilterSize_p);
>   	adapter->pool_config = 0;
>   
>   	netif_napi_add(netdev, &adapter->napi, ibmveth_poll, 16);
>
>