Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-04 Thread Cong Wang
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:10 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > When an ethernet frame is padded to meet the minimum ethernet frame > size, the padding octets are not covered by the hardware checksum. > Fortunately the padding octets are ususally zero's, which don't affect > checksum. However, we have a

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-04 Thread Cong Wang
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:06 PM Saeed Mahameed wrote: > > Hi Cong, sorry to hear that, i will take your patch evaluate and test > personally, will do the needed changes and post it later. Please don't. I am withdrawing my SoB too. To avoid any legal issues, please speak to a legal expert before

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-04 Thread Saeed Mahameed
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 12:50 -0800, Cong Wang wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:21 AM Saeed Mahameed > wrote: > > we are still working on it. > > No, I give up. > > Sorry for wasting time. Let's save everyone's time by discarding it!! > :) Hi Cong, sorry to hear that, i will take your patch

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-04 Thread Cong Wang
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:21 AM Saeed Mahameed wrote: > we are still working on it. No, I give up. Sorry for wasting time. Let's save everyone's time by discarding it!! :)

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-04 Thread Saeed Mahameed
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:17 PM David Miller wrote: > > From: Cong Wang > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:10:13 -0800 > > > When an ethernet frame is padded to meet the minimum ethernet frame > > size, the padding octets are not covered by the hardware checksum. > > Fortunately the padding octets are

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-03 Thread Cong Wang
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:17 PM David Miller wrote: > > Saeed, are you going to take care of this? David, I will send v3 to switch to CHECKSUM_NONE for these short frames, which also could avoid parsing IP headers. Thanks.

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-12-03 Thread David Miller
From: Cong Wang Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:10:13 -0800 > When an ethernet frame is padded to meet the minimum ethernet frame > size, the padding octets are not covered by the hardware checksum. > Fortunately the padding octets are ususally zero's, which don't affect > checksum. However, we have a

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-29 Thread Saeed Mahameed
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:09 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:53 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:50 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM Cong Wang > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM Eric Dumazet

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-29 Thread Saeed Mahameed
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:05 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:57 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > But again, I kinda feel the hardware already does the sanity check, > > otherwise we have much more serious trouble in mlx5e_lro_update_hdr() > > which parses into TCP header. > > > > While

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:53 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:50 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > > > > A NIC is supposed to deliver frames, even the ones

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Cong Wang
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:50 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > > A NIC is supposed to deliver frames, even the ones that 'seem' bad. > > > > A quick test shows this is not the case

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > A NIC is supposed to deliver frames, even the ones that 'seem' bad. > > A quick test shows this is not the case for mlx5. > > With the trafgen script you gave to me, with tot_len==40,

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Cong Wang
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > A NIC is supposed to deliver frames, even the ones that 'seem' bad. A quick test shows this is not the case for mlx5. With the trafgen script you gave to me, with tot_len==40, the dest host could receive all the packets. Changing tot_len

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On 11/28/2018 04:05 PM, Cong Wang wrote: > While we are on this page, mlx5e_lro_update_hdr() incorrectly assumes > TCP header is located right after struct iphdr, which is wrong if we could > have IP options on this path. > > It could the hardware which already verified this corner case

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:57 PM Cong Wang wrote: > But again, I kinda feel the hardware already does the sanity check, > otherwise we have much more serious trouble in mlx5e_lro_update_hdr() > which parses into TCP header. > LRO is a different beast. For packets that are not recognized as LRO

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Cong Wang
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:57 PM Cong Wang wrote: > But again, I kinda feel the hardware already does the sanity check, > otherwise we have much more serious trouble in mlx5e_lro_update_hdr() > which parses into TCP header. > While we are on this page, mlx5e_lro_update_hdr() incorrectly assumes

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Cong Wang
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:50 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 2:16 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:00 AM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > > Nice packet of death alert. > > > > > > pad_len can be 0xFF67 here, if frame_len is smaller than pad_offset. > >

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 2:16 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:00 AM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > Nice packet of death alert. > > > > pad_len can be 0xFF67 here, if frame_len is smaller than pad_offset. > > Unless IP header is malformed, how could it be? This is totally

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Cong Wang
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:00 AM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Nice packet of death alert. > > pad_len can be 0xFF67 here, if frame_len is smaller than pad_offset. Unless IP header is malformed, how could it be? Speaking of IP header sanity, I am totally aware of it, I don't check it because I

Re: [Patch net v2] mlx5: fixup checksum for short ethernet frame padding

2018-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:10 PM Cong Wang wrote: > > When an ethernet frame is padded to meet the minimum ethernet frame > size, the padding octets are not covered by the hardware checksum. > Fortunately the padding octets are ususally zero's, which don't affect > checksum. However, we have a