Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2019-06-28

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: fix the way how L4 checksum choice is tested

From: Ananyev, Konstantin <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-24 11:52:26

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The API to prepare checksum offloads mistreats L4
checksum type enum values as self-contained flags.

Turning these flag checks into enum checks causes
warnings by GCC about possibly uninitialised IPv4
header pointer. The issue was found to show up in
the case of GCC versions 4.8.5 and 5.4.0, however,
it might be the case for a wider variety of other
versions. As GCC version 7.4.0 is not susceptible
to the said false positive assessment, this patch
maintains a compiler barrier for earlier versions.

Fixes: 4fb7e803eb1a ("ethdev: add Tx preparation")
Cc: Tomasz Kulasek <redacted>
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <redacted>
---
 lib/librte_net/rte_net.h | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_net.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_net.h
index 7088584..fb09431 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_net.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_net.h
@@ -151,7 +151,19 @@ uint32_t rte_net_get_ptype(const struct rte_mbuf *m,
 			ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum = 0;
 	}
As I remember, saw something similar before...
Probably the eaiser way to overcome it, is just to always initialize ipv4_hdr above,
something like:

+ipv4_hdr = NULL;
if (ol_flags & PKT_TX_IPV4) {
                ipv4_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod_offset(m, struct rte_ipv4_hdr *,
                                inner_l3_offset);

                if (ol_flags & PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM)
                        ipv4_hdr->hdr_checksum = 0;
 }

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-	if ((ol_flags & PKT_TX_UDP_CKSUM) == PKT_TX_UDP_CKSUM) {
+#ifdef GCC_VERSION
+#if GCC_VERSION < 70400
+	/*
+	 * Earlier versions of GCC suspect access to possibly
+	 * uninitialised ipv4_hdr in the code below, although
+	 * the said variable is properly initialised above.
+	 * Use compiler barrier to cope with the problem.
+	 */
+	rte_compiler_barrier();
+#endif
+#endif
+
+	if ((ol_flags & PKT_TX_L4_MASK) == PKT_TX_UDP_CKSUM) {
 		if (ol_flags & PKT_TX_IPV4) {
 			udp_hdr = (struct rte_udp_hdr *)((char *)ipv4_hdr +
 					m->l3_len);
@@ -167,7 +179,7 @@ uint32_t rte_net_get_ptype(const struct rte_mbuf *m,
 			udp_hdr->dgram_cksum = rte_ipv6_phdr_cksum(ipv6_hdr,
 					ol_flags);
 		}
-	} else if ((ol_flags & PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM) ||
+	} else if ((ol_flags & PKT_TX_L4_MASK) == PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM ||
 			(ol_flags & PKT_TX_TCP_SEG)) {
 		if (ol_flags & PKT_TX_IPV4) {
 			/* non-TSO tcp or TSO */
--
1.8.3.1
  
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