This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ethernet: cortina: Handle large frames
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ethernet-cortina-handle-large-frames.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 33f4c3547379bfa97c0369916217f83d2eb637d8
Author: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 9 10:03:13 2023 +0100
net: ethernet: cortina: Handle large frames
[ Upstream commit d4d0c5b4d279bfe3585fbd806efefd3e51c82afa ]
The Gemini ethernet controller provides hardware checksumming
for frames up to 1514 bytes including ethernet headers but not
FCS.
If we start sending bigger frames (after first bumping up the MTU
on both interfaces sending and receiving the frames), truncated
packets start to appear on the target such as in this tcpdump
resulting from ping -s 1474:
23:34:17.241983 14:d6:4d:a8:3c:4f (oui Unknown) > bc:ae:c5:6b:a8:3d (oui Unknown),
ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 1514: truncated-ip - 2 bytes missing!
(tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 32653, offset 0, flags [DF], proto ICMP (1), length 1502)
OpenWrt.lan > Fecusia: ICMP echo request, id 1672, seq 50, length 1482
If we bypass the hardware checksumming and provide a software
fallback, everything starts working fine up to the max TX MTU
of 2047 bytes, for example ping -s2000 192.168.1.2:
00:44:29.587598 bc:ae:c5:6b:a8:3d (oui Unknown) > 14:d6:4d:a8:3c:4f (oui Unknown),
ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 2042:
(tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 51828, offset 0, flags [none], proto ICMP (1), length 2028)
Fecusia > OpenWrt.lan: ICMP echo reply, id 1683, seq 4, length 2008
The bit enabling to bypass hardware checksum (or any of the
"TSS" bits) are undocumented in the hardware reference manual.
The entire hardware checksum unit appears undocumented. The
conclusion that we need to use the "bypass" bit was found by
trial-and-error.
Since no hardware checksum will happen, we slot in a software
checksum fallback.
Check for the condition where we need to compute checksum on the
skb with either hardware or software using == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL instead
of != CHECKSUM_NONE which is an incomplete check according to
<linux/skbuff.h>.
On the D-Link DIR-685 router this fixes a bug on the conduit
interface to the RTL8366RB DSA switch: as the switch needs to add
space for its tag it increases the MTU on the conduit interface
to 1504 and that means that when the router sends packages
of 1500 bytes these get an extra 4 bytes of DSA tag and the
transfer fails because of the erroneous hardware checksumming,
affecting such basic functionality as the LuCI web interface.
Fixes: 4d5ae32f5e1e ("net: ethernet: Add a driver for Gemini gigabit ethernet")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231109-gemini-largeframe-fix-v4-2-6e611528db08@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
index fbb50a0602832..ce1ada712af69 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
@@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
dma_addr_t mapping;
unsigned short mtu;
void *buffer;
+ int ret;
mtu = ETH_HLEN;
mtu += netdev->mtu;
@@ -1166,9 +1167,30 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
word3 |= mtu;
}
- if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_NONE) {
+ if (skb->len >= ETH_FRAME_LEN) {
+ /* Hardware offloaded checksumming isn't working on frames
+ * bigger than 1514 bytes. A hypothesis about this is that the
+ * checksum buffer is only 1518 bytes, so when the frames get
+ * bigger they get truncated, or the last few bytes get
+ * overwritten by the FCS.
+ *
+ * Just use software checksumming and bypass on bigger frames.
+ */
+ if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
+ ret = skb_checksum_help(skb);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+ word1 |= TSS_BYPASS_BIT;
+ } else if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
int tcp = 0;
+ /* We do not switch off the checksumming on non TCP/UDP
+ * frames: as is shown from tests, the checksumming engine
+ * is smart enough to see that a frame is not actually TCP
+ * or UDP and then just pass it through without any changes
+ * to the frame.
+ */
if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
word1 |= TSS_IP_CHKSUM_BIT;
tcp = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP;
