On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:04:28PM +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> The goal of commit 7987d2be5a8b ("virtio-net: Copy received header to
> buffer") was to remove the need to patch the (const) input buffer with a
> recomputed UDP checksum by copying headers to a RW region and inject the
> checksum there. The patch computed the checksum only from the header
> fields (missing the rest of the payload) producing an invalid one
> and making guests fail to acquire a DHCP lease.
> 
> Fix the issue by copying the entire packet instead of only copying the
> headers.
> 
> Fixes: 7987d2be5a8b ("virtio-net: Copy received header to buffer")
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2727
> Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.od...@daynix.com>

Tested-By: Antoine Damhet <adam...@scaleway.com>

> ---
> This patch aims to resolves the issue the following one also does:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250404151835.328368-1-adam...@scaleway.com
> 
> The difference from the mentioned patch is that this patch also
> preserves that the original intent of regressing change, which is to
> remove the need to patch the (const) input buffer with a recomputed UDP
> checksum.
> 
> To Antoine Damhet:
> I confirmed that DHCP is currently not working and this patch fixes the
> issue, but I would appreciate if you also confirm the fix as I already
> have done testing badly for the regressing patch.

Thanks for the swift response, ideally I'd like a non-regression test in
the testsuite but a quick test showed me that I couldn't easily
reproduce with user networking so unless someone has a great idea it
would be a pain.

> ---
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
> index de87cfadffe1..a920358a89c5 100644
> --- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
> +++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
> @@ -1687,6 +1687,11 @@ static void virtio_net_hdr_swap(VirtIODevice *vdev, 
> struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr)
>      virtio_tswap16s(vdev, &hdr->csum_offset);
>  }
>  
> +typedef struct Header {
> +    struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash virtio_net;
> +    uint8_t payload[1500];
> +} Header;
> +
>  /* dhclient uses AF_PACKET but doesn't pass auxdata to the kernel so
>   * it never finds out that the packets don't have valid checksums.  This
>   * causes dhclient to get upset.  Fedora's carried a patch for ages to
> @@ -1701,7 +1706,7 @@ static void virtio_net_hdr_swap(VirtIODevice *vdev, 
> struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr)
>   * we should provide a mechanism to disable it to avoid polluting the host
>   * cache.
>   */
> -static void work_around_broken_dhclient(struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
> +static void work_around_broken_dhclient(struct Header *hdr,
>                                          size_t *hdr_len, const uint8_t *buf,
>                                          size_t buf_size, size_t *buf_offset)
>  {
> @@ -1711,20 +1716,20 @@ static void work_around_broken_dhclient(struct 
> virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
>      buf += *buf_offset;
>      buf_size -= *buf_offset;
>  
> -    if ((hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) && /* missing csum */
> -        (buf_size >= csum_size && buf_size < 1500) && /* normal sized MTU */
> +    if ((hdr->virtio_net.hdr.flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) && /* 
> missing csum */
> +        (buf_size >= csum_size && buf_size < sizeof(hdr->payload)) && /* 
> normal sized MTU */
>          (buf[12] == 0x08 && buf[13] == 0x00) && /* ethertype == IPv4 */
>          (buf[23] == 17) && /* ip.protocol == UDP */
>          (buf[34] == 0 && buf[35] == 67)) { /* udp.srcport == bootps */
> -        memcpy((uint8_t *)hdr + *hdr_len, buf, csum_size);
> -        net_checksum_calculate((uint8_t *)hdr + *hdr_len, csum_size, 
> CSUM_UDP);
> -        hdr->flags &= ~VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM;
> -        *hdr_len += csum_size;
> -        *buf_offset += csum_size;
> +        memcpy((uint8_t *)hdr + *hdr_len, buf, buf_size);
> +        net_checksum_calculate((uint8_t *)hdr + *hdr_len, buf_size, 
> CSUM_UDP);
> +        hdr->virtio_net.hdr.flags &= ~VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM;
> +        *hdr_len += buf_size;
> +        *buf_offset += buf_size;
>      }
>  }
>  
> -static size_t receive_header(VirtIONet *n, struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
> +static size_t receive_header(VirtIONet *n, Header *hdr,
>                               const void *buf, size_t buf_size,
>                               size_t *buf_offset)

`receive_header` can now "receive" the whole packet that's kinda
misleading. I though another approach would be to only do the
detection/flag patching from receive_header and recompute the checksum
directly in the final `iov`, this would also eliminate the extra payload
copy.

Cheers,

-- 
Antoine 'xdbob' Damhet
Engineer @scaleway


>  {
> @@ -1736,7 +1741,7 @@ static size_t receive_header(VirtIONet *n, struct 
> virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
>      work_around_broken_dhclient(hdr, &hdr_len, buf, buf_size, buf_offset);
>  
>      if (n->needs_vnet_hdr_swap) {
> -        virtio_net_hdr_swap(VIRTIO_DEVICE(n), hdr);
> +        virtio_net_hdr_swap(VIRTIO_DEVICE(n), (struct virtio_net_hdr *)hdr);
>      }
>  
>      return hdr_len;
> @@ -1907,13 +1912,6 @@ static int virtio_net_process_rss(NetClientState *nc, 
> const uint8_t *buf,
>      return (index == new_index) ? -1 : new_index;
>  }
>  
> -typedef struct Header {
> -    struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash virtio_net;
> -    struct eth_header eth;
> -    struct ip_header ip;
> -    struct udp_header udp;
> -} Header;
> -
>  static ssize_t virtio_net_receive_rcu(NetClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf,
>                                        size_t size)
>  {
> @@ -2002,8 +2000,7 @@ static ssize_t virtio_net_receive_rcu(NetClientState 
> *nc, const uint8_t *buf,
>              }
>  
>              guest_offset = n->has_vnet_hdr ?
> -                           receive_header(n, (struct virtio_net_hdr *)&hdr,
> -                                          buf, size, &offset) :
> +                           receive_header(n, &hdr, buf, size, &offset) :
>                             n->guest_hdr_len;
>  
>              iov_from_buf(sg, elem->in_num, 0, &hdr, guest_offset);
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 825b96dbcee23d134b691fc75618b59c5f53da32
> change-id: 20250405-mtu-834d4c62c93c
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.od...@daynix.com>

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