Le 28/02/2024 à 01:21, Charlie Jenkins a écrit :

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:28:45AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:47:38AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:

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Le 27/02/2024 à 00:48, Guenter Roeck a écrit :

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On 2/26/24 15:17, Charlie Jenkins wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:33:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:

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I think you misunderstand. "NET_IP_ALIGN offset is what the kernel
defines to be supported" is a gross misinterpretation. It is not
"defined to be supported" at all. It is the _preferred_ alignment
nothing more, nothing less.

This distinction is arbitrary in practice, but I am open to being proven
wrong if you have data to back up this statement. If the driver chooses
to not follow this, then the driver might not work. ARM defines the
NET_IP_ALIGN to be 2 to pad out the header to be on the supported
alignment. If the driver chooses to pad with one byte instead of 2
bytes, the driver may fail to work as the CPU may stall after the
misaligned access.

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I'm sure I've seen code that would realign IP headers to a 4 byte
boundary before processing them - but that might not have been in
Linux.

I'm also sure there are cpu which will fault double length misaligned
memory transfers - which might be used to marginally speed up code.
Assuming more than 4 byte alignment for the IP header is likely
'wishful thinking'.

There is plenty of ethernet hardware that can only write frames
to even boundaries and plenty of cpu that fault misaligned accesses.
There are even cases of both on the same silicon die.

You also pretty much never want a fault handler to fixup misaligned
ethernet frames (or really anything else for that matter).
It is always going to be better to check in the code itself.

x86 has just made people 'sloppy' :-)

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If somebody has a solution they deem to be better, I am happy to change
this test case. Otherwise, I would appreciate a maintainer resolving
this discussion and apply this fix.

Agreed.

I do have a couple of patches which add explicit unaligned tests as well as
corner case tests (which are intended to trigger as many carry overflows
as possible). Once I get those working reliably, I'll be happy to submit
them as additional tests.

The functions definitely have to work at least with and without VLAN,
which means the alignment cannot be greater than 4 bytes. That's also
the outcome of the discussion.

Thanks for completely ignoring what I've said. No. The alignment ends up
being commonly 2 bytes.

As I've said several times, network drivers do _not_ have to respect
NET_IP_ALIGN. There are 32-bit ARM drivers which have a DMA engine in
them which can only DMA to a 32-bit aligned address. This means that
the start of the ethernet header is placed at a 32-bit aligned address
making the IP header misaligned to 32-bit.

I don't see what is so difficult to understand about this... but it
seems that my comments on this are being ignored time and time again,
and I can only think that those who are ignoring my comments have
some alterior motive here.

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I don't understand how the capabilities of some ARM drivers factor in
here. It appears that a common case for calling this function is to pass
in an IP header that is aligned along an ethernet header + NET_IP_ALIGN.
It is perfectly acceptable that some drivers don't align along
NET_IP_ALIGN, but that does not seem relevant here.

This test case is supposed to be as true to the "general case" as
possible, so I have aligned the data along 14 + NET_IP_ALIGN. On ARM
this will be a 16-byte boundary since NET_IP_ALIGN is 2. A driver that
does not follow this may not be appropriately tested by this test case,
but anyone is welcome to submit additional test cases that address this
additional alignment concern.

But then this test case is becoming less and less true to the "general 
case" with this patch, whereas your initial implementation was almost 
perfect as it was covering most cases, a lot more than what we get with 
that patch applied.

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