Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2021-10-13

Re: [PATCH] net: ncsi: Adding padding bytes in the payload

From: Paul Menzel <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-12 08:04:26
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Dear Kumar,


Thank you for your patch.

Nit: Could you please use the imperative mood in the commit message summary:

 > net: ncsi: Add padding bytes in the payload

Or more descriptive:

 > net: ncsi: Padd payload to be 32-bit aligned to fix dropped packets

Am 12.10.21 um 08:22 schrieb Kumar Thangavel:
Update NC-SI command handler (both standard and OEM) to take into
account of payload paddings in allocating skb (in case of payload
size is not 32-bit aligned).

The checksum field follows payload field, without taking payload
padding into account can cause checksum being truncated, leading to
dropped packets.
How can this be reproduced?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Kumar Thangavel <redacted>

---
  net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c
index ba9ae482141b..4625fc935603 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c
@@ -214,11 +214,19 @@ static int ncsi_cmd_handler_oem(struct sk_buff *skb,
  	struct ncsi_cmd_oem_pkt *cmd;
  	unsigned int len;
  
+	/* NC-SI spec requires payload to be padded with 0
It’d be great, if you included the specification version, and section if 
the requirement.
+	 * to 32-bit boundary before the checksum field.
+	 * Ensure the padding bytes are accounted for in
+	 * skb allocation
+	 */
+
Please remove the blank line.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+	unsigned short payload = ALIGN(nca->payload, 4);
+
  	len = sizeof(struct ncsi_cmd_pkt_hdr) + 4;
-	if (nca->payload < 26)
+	if (payload < 26)
  		len += 26;
  	else
-		len += nca->payload;
+		len += payload;
  
  	cmd = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
  	memcpy(&cmd->mfr_id, nca->data, nca->payload);
@@ -272,6 +280,7 @@ static struct ncsi_request *ncsi_alloc_command(struct ncsi_cmd_arg *nca)
  	struct net_device *dev = nd->dev;
  	int hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
  	int tlen = dev->needed_tailroom;
+	int payload;
  	int len = hlen + tlen;
  	struct sk_buff *skb;
  	struct ncsi_request *nr;
@@ -281,14 +290,18 @@ static struct ncsi_request *ncsi_alloc_command(struct ncsi_cmd_arg *nca)
  		return NULL;
  
  	/* NCSI command packet has 16-bytes header, payload, 4 bytes checksum.
+	 * Payload needs padding so that the checksum field follwoing payload is
following
+	 * aligned to 32bit boundary.
32-bit
  	 * The packet needs padding if its payload is less than 26 bytes to
  	 * meet 64 bytes minimal ethernet frame length.
  	 */
  	len += sizeof(struct ncsi_cmd_pkt_hdr) + 4;
-	if (nca->payload < 26)
+
+	payload = ALIGN(nca->payload, 4);
+	if (payload < 26)
  		len += 26;
  	else
-		len += nca->payload;
+		len += payload;
  
  	/* Allocate skb */
  	skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
Besides the nits, this looks fine to me.


Kind regards,

Paul
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