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Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] ath10k: adjust skb length in ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_packet

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Kalle: Can you please help prioritize the review and merge of this
patch? This is quite a serious regression (the rest of the series is
performance improvement and probably a little less urgent).

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 5:22 PM Wen Gong <wgong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When the FW bundles multiple packets, pkt->act_len may be incorrect
> as it refers to the first packet only (however, the FW will only
> bundle packets that fit into the same pkt->alloc_len).
>
> Before this patch, the skb length would be set (incorrectly) to
> pkt->act_len in ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_packet, and then later manually
> adjusted in ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_process_packet.
>
> The first problem is that ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_process_packet does not
> use proper skb_put commands to adjust the length (it directly changes
> skb->len), so we end up with a mismatch between skb->head + skb->tail
> and skb->data + skb->len. This is quite serious, and causes corruptions
> in the TCP stack, as the stack tries to coalesce packets, and relies
> on skb->tail being correct (that is, skb_tail_pointer must point to
> the first byte_after_ the data).
>
> Instead of re-adjusting the size in ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_process_packet,
> this moves the code to ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_packet, and also add a
> bounds check, as skb_put would crash the kernel if not enough space is
> available.
>
> Tested with QCA6174 SDIO with firmware
> WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00007-QCARMSWP-1.
>
> Fixes: 8530b4e7b22bc3b ("ath10k: sdio: set skb len for all rx packets")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: no this patch
> v3: new added
> v4: change commit log
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> index 8ed4fbd..1127e44 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> @@ -381,16 +381,11 @@ static int ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_process_packet(struct ath10k *ar,
>         struct ath10k_htc_hdr *htc_hdr = (struct ath10k_htc_hdr *)skb->data;
>         bool trailer_present = htc_hdr->flags & ATH10K_HTC_FLAG_TRAILER_PRESENT;
>         enum ath10k_htc_ep_id eid;
> -       u16 payload_len;
>         u8 *trailer;
>         int ret;
>
> -       payload_len = le16_to_cpu(htc_hdr->len);
> -       skb->len = payload_len + sizeof(struct ath10k_htc_hdr);
> -
>         if (trailer_present) {
> -               trailer = skb->data + sizeof(*htc_hdr) +
> -                         payload_len - htc_hdr->trailer_len;
> +               trailer = skb->data + skb->len - htc_hdr->trailer_len;
>
>                 eid = pipe_id_to_eid(htc_hdr->eid);
>
> @@ -632,13 +627,29 @@ static int ath10k_sdio_mbox_rx_packet(struct ath10k *ar,
>  {
>         struct ath10k_sdio *ar_sdio = ath10k_sdio_priv(ar);
>         struct sk_buff *skb = pkt->skb;
> +       struct ath10k_htc_hdr *htc_hdr;
>         int ret;
>
>         ret = ath10k_sdio_readsb(ar, ar_sdio->mbox_info.htc_addr,
>                                  skb->data, pkt->alloc_len);
> +
> +       if (!ret) {
> +               /* Update actual length. The original length may be incorrect,
> +                * as the FW will bundle multiple packets as long as their sizes
> +                * fit within the same aligned length (pkt->alloc_len).
> +                */
> +               htc_hdr = (struct ath10k_htc_hdr *)skb->data;
> +               pkt->act_len = le16_to_cpu(htc_hdr->len) + sizeof(*htc_hdr);
> +               if (pkt->act_len <= pkt->alloc_len) {
> +                       skb_put(skb, pkt->act_len);
> +               } else {
> +                       ath10k_warn(ar, "rx packet too large (%zu > %zu)\n",
> +                                   pkt->act_len, pkt->alloc_len);
> +                       ret = -EMSGSIZE;
> +               }
> +       }
> +
>         pkt->status = ret;
> -       if (!ret)
> -               skb_put(skb, pkt->act_len);
>
>         return ret;
>  }
> --
> 1.9.1
>



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