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Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

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On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 17:27 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 17:22 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 17:18 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > > > Note I think the failing packets are dhcp packets, and connman seems to
> > > > use an AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP socket for those, and binds it
> > > > to the right device. I'd be quite surprised though if UDP code had
> > > > issues with paged Rx??
> > 
> > > You told me : socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_EAPOL))
> > > 
> > > So I looked at raw code.
> > 
> > and even found an issue. Artem wasn't really sure, but looking at his
> > information again it seems that the EAPOL packets (those on the raw
> > sockets) do go through, and then DHCP fails. In the printk he did for
> > me, I can see that the EAPOL packets are small enough to get pulled in
> > completely in iwlwifi, and the bigger DHCP packets (~600 bytes) only go
> > through if we linearize them.
> 
> OK, its a bug in UDP, I'll send a patch asap.

Oh well, false alarm.

Artem, could you send one capture of one such DHCP big packet ?

tcpdump -p -n -s 2000 -i wlanX -X


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