Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] tg3: Fix data corruption on 5725 with TSO

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On 05/13/2013 02:40 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 14:34 -0700, Nithin Nayak Sujir wrote:

On 05/13/2013 02:14 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:

+/* Test for TSO DMA buffers that cross into regions which are within MSS bytes
+ * of any 4GB boundaries: 4G, 8G, etc
+ */
+static inline int tg3_4g_tso_overflow_test(struct tg3 *tp, dma_addr_t mapping,
+					   u32 len, u32 mss)
+{
+	if (tg3_asic_rev(tp) == ASIC_REV_5762 && mss) {
+		u32 base = (u32) mapping & 0xffffffff;
+
+		return ((base + len + (mss & 0x3fff)) < base);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+

I am curious : Does this condition even triggers ?


Yes, it's a rare problem to occur and was reported in our lab. After we
implemented this fix, the problem didn't happen again.


I just cant figure out which part of the kernel could allocate a
fragment spanning a 4G region.


For the bug to occur, the fragment does not have to span a 4G boundary. If it is within MSS bytes (9.6k) of a 4G boundary, it triggers the failure.






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